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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical spam relaying by the big boys
Just yesterday, UUNet released a statement on it's anti-spam policy, which included: UUNET's anti-spamming policy includes: - limiting the length of email recipient lists; - blacklisting mail sent from known spamming locations or organizations; - maintaining a mailbox ([email protected]) which allows victims to report spam incidents; Imagine my surprise when I bounced some newly received spam to [email protected] and received the following response: ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors ----- <[email protected]> ----- Transcript of session follows ----- ... while talking to mail.uu.net.: >>> RCPT To:<[email protected]> <<< 550 <[email protected]>... User unknown 550 <[email protected]>... User unknown Oh joy! ------------------------------------------------------------------ Jon Lewis <[email protected]> | Unsolicited commercial e-mail will Network Administrator | be proof-read for $199/message. Florida Digital Turnpike | ______http://inorganic5.fdt.net/~jlewis/pgp for PGP public key____
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