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Date:      Wed, 30 Apr 2014 07:33:51 +0800
From:      Erich Dollansky <erichsfreebsdlist@alogt.com>
To:        David Joyce <davidj@softcom.com>
Cc:        "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Spam to list participants (from openhosting.com & softcom.com)
Message-ID:  <20140430073351.4383f0d2@X220.alogt.com>
In-Reply-To: <4b6b4a9ce7244211a2621510c6d9752d@CorpEX01.ad1.softcom.biz>
References:  <73354.1398734218@server1.tristatelogic.com> <4b6b4a9ce7244211a2621510c6d9752d@CorpEX01.ad1.softcom.biz>

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Hi,

On Tue, 29 Apr 2014 21:29:17 +0000
David Joyce <davidj@softcom.com> wrote:

> I am a representative from the myhosting.com (SoftCom) abuse
> department, which is responsible for the IP ranges mentioned:

you are reading this list? Are you also a user of FreeBSD then?
> 
> Since we did not receive any notifications about this spam since
> roughly a day ago, we were not made aware of the activity. I think
> that Ronald F. Guilmette is being a bit premature in asking to have
> our entire network blacklisted without any prior notification of the
> activity.
> 
I reported this when I have gotten the first spam of this sort from a
different provider. Ok, the provider blocked that one IP/machine but
the spam moved then to a new IP. If you are lucky, you have already got
one spam-mail after posting here and might get a second one after I
answer yours.

As the spam stays the same but the IP addresses move across continents,
I believe that a botnet is behind the activities.

Good luck in finding out more.

Erich



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