Tim wrote:
On Thu, 2005-11-17 at 07:58 -0700, Craig White wrote:
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.
Isn't the tradition Unix response to fire off multi-megabyte core dumps
at malcontents on the net? ;-)
However, an attack, whatever motivated is an attack, and can get you in
trouble while they plead innocent. Isn't the proper response to
complain to their abuse department, then if that doesn't work, find
their upstream provider and complain to that?
AIUI, the problems are twofold at least
(1) someone has (probably accidentally, and cluelessly) used the
"anti SPAM" feature of his ISP in a way that is bad for this echo,
and
(2) UOL is stripping off the needed information to find out who
did it, so we can't educate him and get this resolved.
These two problems require separate, and different, solutions.
Mike
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