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The worst abuse e-mail ever, sverige.net

  • From: james edwards
  • Date: Tue Sep 21 12:21:23 2004

This is the rudest, most arrogant abuse complaint I have seen. It is a
frigging dial up user.

james

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <RBL>
To: <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>; <[email protected]>;
<[email protected]>; <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, September 19, 2004 12:32 PM
Subject: Email is in RBL _ DENIED _ (by bl.spamcop.se from
[email protected] reason Sending IP 65.19.17.201 support SPAM )


> You have sent a message that has been stopped! This
> is because of your sending e-mailserver being listed in
> an anti spam database. You should probably alert your
> email administrator and/or your ISP and send this email
> along to him.
>
> The only reason a serious ISP or email administers would
> be on such a list is that he do not yet know about it being
> listed. Otherwise he would already have fixed the wrongfully
> configured server. Or he terminated the contract with the
> offending customer that put him on that list.
>
> We have also tried to send this letter on the following
> standardized addresses:
> =======================
> [email protected]
> [email protected]
> [email protected]
> [email protected]
> =======================
>
> But very often administrators that don't know how to
> configure a secure mailserver, don't know that they have
> to implement these system addresses either.
> And we feel that you will probably get better results
> if you call or send this your self.
>
> Most responses we get are about the spelling and
> grammar from postmasters and administrators. They
> are usually angry that we have made their customers
> aware about their problems. This is kind of silly as the
> Information given is easy to understand anyway, and
> we could have sent the letter in correct Swedish instead.
>
> But as our purpose in sending this is neither to make it
> unreadable nor to make it offensive to anyone. Our
> purpose is to inform about systems being misused or miss
> configured so that the administrators gets a fair chance to
> fix their servers.
>
> So if you're an administrators please don't get angry
> just fix your email servers and we will be happy to relay
> your messages again. As a result your customers will be
> happy and you will get less angry calls and letters making
> you happy as well.
>
> The few administrators, postmasters and ISP's that just
> don't give a damn, will probably be noticed by their
> customers anyway. As these letters will keep arriving
> although they are probably just a very small part of the
> end users problems.
>
> Please send any comments to [email protected]
>
> Date time = 2004-09-19 18:32:03
> Subject = Our promise: to save you money on your medication.  CMHSO
> Message-ID = <[email protected]>
> rcipient = [email protected]
> rbl list = bl.spamcop.se
> ErrorMessage = 542 Rejected - see
http://spamcop.net/w3m?action=checkblock&ip=65.19.17.201
> Reason = Sending IP 65.19.17.201 support SPAM
> Denied IP = 65.19.17.201
>
> Message Source 10 lines
> =======================
> Received: from [65.19.17.201] by mailbox.sverige.net (JPHS RBL mail from
[email protected]) with SMTP id  for [email protected]; Sun,
19 Sep 2004 20:31:59 +0200
> Received: from coalesce.mail.tpnet.pl by 62.13.25.2; Sun, 19 Sep 2004
19:30:58 -0200
> To: <[email protected]>
> From: anthony roop <[email protected]>
> Reply-To: <[email protected]>
> Subject: Our promise: to save you money on your medication.  CMHSO
> Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2004 16:31:58 -0500
> Message-ID: <[email protected]>
> MIME-Version: 1.0
> Content-Type: multipart/mixed;
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
> X-Priority: 3
> X-Mailer: PocoMail 2.61 (1055) - Licensed Version
> X-jphspassrblrun: 1
>
> =======================