How to stop a site from spamming you?

[coburn]

The site <snip> looks to have crawled my registrar email addresses and is spamming us. What can I do?

Thx,
Coburn

[edited by: lawman at 11:55 am (utc) on Nov. 12, 2005]
[edit reason] No URLs Please [/edit]

[rocknbil]

Be sure you understand exactly what's happening. When you say "spamming" do you mean being bombarded with emails from a particular address, or are they hammering your site with page requests in an attempted denial of service attack of some sort? Or is it that attack where garbage data is sent at your mailers until a vulnerability is found, then thery use the vulerability to spam AOL or other sites? In the latter case, these are anonymous hacks from compromised servers and by the time you see them they're already gone.

If you're sure it's an email spam attack and you can target the sender,

Report them
[spamcop.net...]

In the US
[e-mail]

Call their isp and complain. Repeatedly.

Configure your mail server to refuse all requests from that IP address. This is a bit drastic as it may kill legitimate requests, but if you do it for a short time they may give up and you can remove it.