On Sat, 2005-07-23 at 19:10 -0500, Damian Menscher wrote: > On Sat, 23 Jul 2005, nodata wrote: > > On Sat, 2005-07-23 at 13:23 -0400, Roy wrote: > >> On Sat, 2005-07-23 at 17:09 +0100, Paul Howarth wrote: > >>> On Sat, 2005-07-23 at 18:06 +0200, nodata wrote: > >>>> wtogami: Please can you unsubscribe "peter.whalley@xxxxxxxxxx" from the > >>>> list. He's spamming everyone. > >>>> > >>>> This has been requested before: > >>>> https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2005-April/msg00449.html > >>> > >>> And before that too. The problem is: he's not subscribed, at least not > >>> at that address (it must be being forwarded to there from somewhere > >>> else, and nobody knows which address that is). > >> > >> Wonder what would happen if these were consistently forwarded to > >> something like SpamCop or something, and the block ended up in a DNSBL > >> somewhere. Figure someone at uol.com.br might find out where the forward > >> connection is and "remedy" the situation? > > > > I've reported the problem to their abuse department, and (bizarrely) to > > cert brazil, as suggested by the "remarks" section of their whois > > record. Let's see if they can help.. > > It's probably simpler than that... I suggest we all actually fill out > his silly challenge-reponse thing, and then send him a few dozen emails > with megabyte-sized attachments. Make sure each email includes a > message body saying something about not sending autoreplies to this > list. Surely the sysadmin would notice when the user's inbox starts > taking a could hundred meg (or gig)? > > Note: I'm not advocating vigilantism here -- just suggesting a way where > we could get their attention (possibly the attention of the user, or, if > that fails, the attention of the sysadmin). > > Damian Menscher > -- > -=#| Physics Grad Student & SysAdmin @ U Illinois Urbana-Champaign |#=- > -=#| 488 LLP, 1110 W. Green St, Urbana, IL 61801 Ofc:(217)333-0038 |#=- > -=#| 4602 Beckman, VMIL/MS, Imaging Technology Group:(217)244-3074 |#=- > -=#| <menscher@xxxxxxxx> www.uiuc.edu/~menscher/ Fax:(217)333-9819 |#=- > -=#| The above opinions are not necessarily those of my employers. |#=- > I'll do this as a second stage. I'm against the whole "prove I exist" thing so that I can contact someone who is spamming though.
