Date: Mon, 29 Jun 1998 20:45:08 -0400 From: "Louis A. Mamakos" <louie@TransSys.COM> To: "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb@freebsd.org> Cc: grog@lemis.com (Greg Lehey), jkh@time.cdrom.com, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Too much spam from uu.net Message-ID: <199806300045.UAA04359@whizzo.transsys.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 29 Jun 1998 10:08:21 PDT." <199806291708.KAA21720@hub.freebsd.org> References: <199806291708.KAA21720@hub.freebsd.org>
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> Greg Lehey wrote: > > On Sunday, 28 June 1998 at 20:21:40 -0700, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > > Sorry for the -hackers posting here, but this will reach the people > > > most likely to be affected. > > > > > > Despite their frequent protests to the contrary, uu.net remains the > > > single largest origin of spam abuse for our mailing lists and their > > > policy of apparently re-selling dialup access to secondary ISPs who do > > > *not* necessarily have to have stringent anti-spam policies of their > > > own only makes this even worse. After the most recent spamming from > > > one of "uu.net's" dialups (and god only knows which affiliate is > > > actually responsible for it), I've taken it upon myself to add them to > > > freebsd.org's spammer list. This is a purely provisional move until > > > we figure out how extensive the side-effects of this will be, it > > > perhaps becoming a permanant block if the problem does not abate and > > > not too terribly many folks are inconvenienced by it. From those who > > > will get much less spam as a result of this move, I also doubt that > > > too many tears will be shed for uu.net. > > > > How many mailing list users will this affect? > > there are only three mailing lists subscribers from uu.net. > surprising but true. > > so far no one has sent mail to the lists from uu.net in today's > /var/log/maillog. > > hmm.... 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. 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 for it", there also a database and associated tools which can cough up the answer in short order and result in the requisite transitive pain/suffering. louie (also louie@UU.NET) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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