RICOCHET
A lot of unsolicited email goes unreported because tracing the origins of a possibly forged mail and finding the right people to report to, is complicated and time-consuming. Ricochet, a smart net agent, automates this process. It traces the names and addresses of the systems where the spam originated from along with the servers that provide domain name resolution services to these systems (in most cases their ISPs). Then it collects/generates a list of email addresses of tech/billing/admin/abuse contacts of these system and mails them a complaint and a copy of the spam. Detailed description of its workings can be found in the README file that comes with the package.
AUTHOR
Ricochet is written by Vipul Ved Prakash and distributed under the Artistic License. Send comments, suggestions and bug-reports to ricochet@vipul.net.
RELATED PROJECT
Vipul's Razor is a collaborative, content-based filtering system for email
spam. While still under heavy development, a functional prototype system is
available for general use. Visit Razor's website for more information.
Ricochet Copyright © 1998-2001, Vipul Ved Prakash.
All Rights Reserved.
