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On one hand spam is spam. On the other hand it might interfere with our operations with NSI. They do a *lot* of business via e-mail. Black-hole 'em for a week. It's long enough to get their attention yet not so long it'll screw up operations. At 02:17 AM 11/16/98 -0800, Paul A Vixie wrote: >The RBL team and I are kind of wondering what to do about some spam we got. >Because blackholing NSI would be of operational concern to a lot of you, I've >decided to ponder this question out loud: > >------- Forwarded Message > >Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1998 08:50:26 PST >To: [email protected] >Subject: Paul - value call on this > >Technically, this is an opt-out customer-relationship spam. > >I think it is a special case, because _there is no where else to go_. > >208.226.58.70 should be RBL'ed, IMHO. Help me. > >> Return-Path: [email protected] >> Received: from pasteur.netsol.com ([208.226.58.70]) by ns2.galaxy-net.net >> (8.8.7/8.6.9) with ESMTP id QAA00585; Tue, 10 Nov 1998 16:50:06 -0800 (PST) >> Received: from pasteur (pasteur [208.226.58.70]) >> by pasteur.netsol.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id TAA23788; >> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 19:40:31 -0500 (EST) >> Received: from LISTS.NETSOL.COM by LISTS.NETSOL.COM (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release >> 1.8c) with spool id 0342 for [email protected]; Tue, 10 Nov >> 1998 15:01:15 -0500 >> Received: (from [email protected]) by pasteur.netsol.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) id >> PAA18548 for [email protected]; Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:01:14 >> -0500 >> (EST) >> X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] >> MIME-Version: 1.0 >> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit >> Message-ID: <[email protected]> >> Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:01:14 -0500 >> Reply-To: [email protected] >> Sender: Owner-Admin <[email protected]> >> From: List Manager Account <[email protected]> >> Subject: Network Solutions' E-Commerce Update >> To: [email protected] >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII >> >> ########################### >> >> Dear Customer, >> >> You are a valued customer and we want to help increase and >> protect the value of your domain name. 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