On Tue, 2004-02-03 at 10:45, Don Levey wrote: > 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 I too, received a bounce. Yet I see that my message appears on the List as I have received On Tue, 2004-02-03 at 10:24, postmaster@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: > Sorry, but your last message to fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx was rejected by our Spam Filter for the following reason: > > Your message was not addressed to the correct recipient. The message was addressed to: > > F5_Unwanted_To_Address: fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > > To ensure proper delivery, please use the following link within 24 hours to send your message through our web based interface: > http://10.webmasters.com/webmail/trusted.php?id=Y2hyaXNjemVyd2luc2tpQGNvZ2Vjby5jYXxmZWRvcmEtbGlzdEByZWRoYXQuY29tfGNyY29uZWN0 > vermankwo92j4n4najdj.... > > If the entire URL above does not appear as a link, please copy it in its entirety and paste it into your web browser. > > We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused. Thank you. Chris Cz
