On Thursday 17 November 2005 11:26, Craig White wrote: >On Thu, 2005-11-17 at 10:14 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: >> On Thursday 17 November 2005 09:58, Craig White wrote: >> >On Thu, 2005-11-17 at 03:26 -0500, Warren Togami wrote: >> >> Hmm, I forcefully unsubscribed everyone with a @uol.com.br >> >> address, but I am still receiving those damned petsupermarket >> >> bounces immediately upon sending a message to the list. >> >> >> >> uol.com.br has been a problem here for months. This is insane. >> > >> >---- >> >I suppose the way to definitively solve this issue is to create an >> > smtp daemon that tarpits connections from uol.com.br and distribute >> > it to enough fedora list users that would bring their smtp servers >> > to it's knees within minutes. >> > >> >Craig >> >> Its not just the rh lists, SA and debian is fussing about them too. >> Apparently vz is filtering them as I'm not seeing them, but the >> tarpit idea sounds like a pro-active winner to me. Put them out of >> business till they get a new business plan. I don't have a problem >> with that, not that my opinion is worth any more than you paid for >> it... > >--- >my opinion isn't worth more than yours. > >SA list was instigated by JoAnne doing her thing. > >If 50 Fedora users had servers that could tarpit uol.com.br - they > would clearly get the message and fix it as it would tie up their SMTP > servers big time. My email address does fetchmail from ISP so I can't > do that. > >Craig > I'm in the same boat, different seat Craig. Fetchmail hits vz every 10 minutes or so. -- 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.
