Date: Mon, 29 Jun 1998 18:11:25 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: "Louis A. Mamakos" <louie@TransSys.COM> Cc: "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb@FreeBSD.ORG>, grog@lemis.com (Greg Lehey), hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Too much spam from uu.net Message-ID: <5776.899169085@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 29 Jun 1998 20:45:08 EDT." <199806300045.UAA04359@whizzo.transsys.com>
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> It's very unlikely that the spam originates from anyone with a mailbox on > a UU.NET system. You're probably seeing it from addresses which are in the > foo.DA.UU.NET or bar.MS.UU.NET which are PPP pool addresses used by resellers > of the dial network infrastructure. These would include MSN, AOL, Earthlink, > the Well, WebTV and many others. Right, and I think I made this point in my original email. Since they're clearly reselling to a lot of folks with no scruples WRT UCE at all, the easiest thing to do is simply block *.uu.net since I certainly don't want the job of having to track down every foo.uu.net subdomain resold to a spammer-friendly ISP. As Jon has also already noted, the folks directly affected by this seem quite small and I've gotten *far* less spam in my mailbox today as a result, so as far as I'm concerned the exercise is an unqualified success. > If you tried to report this to abuse@uu.net and that didn't yield > satisfactory results, please let me know. While "god ... knows > which .. is repsonsible Heh. I reported it so many times and so frequently that Paul Vixie finally asked me to cc him on all the reports, someting which I did for a couple of months until we both got tired of the exercise. - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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