On Thursday 17 November 2005 23:53, Wong Kwok-hon wrote: >On 11/17/05, Warren Togami <wtogami@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> James Wilkinson wrote: >> > Warren Togami wrote: >> >>Effective immediately I am not allowing any @uol.com.br >> >> subscriptions to fedora-list. It seems that people who post to >> >> the list are getting spammed from uol.com.br. This is not the >> >> first time this has happened. >> > >> > Note that there is still a petsupermarket@xxxxxxxxxx subscribed to >> > the list (maybe under a different address) and sending >> > "confirmation" e-mails. >> > >> > Actually, it just sent me *four* confirmation e-mails, so I imagine >> > that the twit's been wondering why he isn't getting any of his >> > Fedora list e-mails, and has tried resubscribing multiple times. >> > >> > James (editing his .procmailrc) >> >> It seems to be even stupider than this. If you don't respond to the >> uol.com.br bounce, it re-sends it every 2 hours. This is some >> horribly broken stupidity for a lage ISP. I wonder of our IS folks >> would mind just blacklisting the entire domain at the SMTP level... > >But I found that the .br site sending me email for 4 hours with 15mins > interval > >Wong Kwok Hon We may be getting somewhere with this. Its harrassing the debian list too, and one customer of this ISP suggested we in turn harrass a regular list of addresses, so I'm forwarding everything I get to: abuse@xxxxxxxxxx, uol@xxxxxxxxxx, security@xxxxxxxxxx, mail-abuse@xxxxxxx Just for effects mind you, and I'm adding a header line X-Clueless Twit with a value of SPAMMER :) As usual though, no response. Warrens actions seems to have pretty well slowed the flood here. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.36% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2005 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
