fedora-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: > On Tue, 03 Feb 2004 13:33:45 +0000 Paul Furness > <paul.furness@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> I thought of that, but the headers are a bit confusing. The FROM >> header is saying "postmaster@xxxxxxxxxx", but the originating mail >> server isn't obviously one of theirs: > >> Received: from ns0.webmasters.com (ns.serverleasing.com >> [66.118.156.161]) > >> My guess is that Redhat (or whoever they buy their server space from) >> was twiddling with their spam filter this morning and it went a bit >> wrong for a while. > > on reflection, i think you're correct. someone installed a change > without > adequate lab testing beforehand. on the one hand, it's kind of sad, on > the other hand, sometimes when people do that they pay me a lot of > money to clean up the mess afterwards, which isn't so sad. > While this is possible, webmasters.com has been implicated in spammish activities in the past. They also seem to have a click-through affiliate program, which makes it curious that the message (I got one too) tells you to click through to their site to repost the message. The redhat mx machines are in netspace near to webmasters (both in 66. subnets - 66.118.156.0 - 66.118.157.255 for webmasters, 66.187.224.0 - 66.187.239.255 for redhat), but this probably doesn't mean a thing. What's the possibility that an address at webmasters is subscribed to the list, and trying to get click-throughs? -Don
