On 25 Jul 2005, at 16:26, Francoise Becker wrote:

>or if any kind of reply is sent
>back to that address, then you get listed by Spamcop.
>
>His response can be summarized as "too bad, you shouldn't respond to
>spam".

...so if we had been using SpamCop we would have been protected from
the Honeypot as a spam source because they blacklist their own Honeypots?

Yes I am making a joke.  If they're so smart and understand the situation
shouldn't they have blacklisted the IP that transmitted to the Automaton,
as opposed to blacklisting an Automaton?  Otherwise anybody who gets a
Honeypot address can forge it as a sender to an invalid address on any
target system to set off a 24 hour DoS blacklist against the target.

Wait, isn't that exactly what the spammer did to us?  So once again SpamCop
provides an avenue for a DoS attack against a legitimate server because they
are courageous enough to sacrifice *our* server as "acceptable collateral
damage" in *their* crusade.

                                              -Kary