[OT/NOOP] Re: tacid.org

[jamie <j () arpa com>]

1) I hate plants.
2) I hate analogies involving plants even more.
3) You're suggesting abandonment of "perfectly good" IP space, and that he
employ stealthy and gray-hat thinking to obtain an easy out.  Way to pad
ARIN's wallet, btw.

When I saw his e-mail, I thought, how proper of him.  He's taking ownership
of his problem.

He wasnt asking for anything specific; infact, it seemed to me more like an
offer of help ("hey, firefighter joe on the scene.  i think i've pretty much
pwned this fire, so, lemme know if you still see crap burning! kthx").

I think he knows the drill on what he needs to do.
Don't give him evil thoughts... he'll end up just like the rest of us.

:-)

-j

On Sat, Jul 5, 2008 at 3:21 PM, Frank Bulk - iNAME <frnkblk () iname com>
wrote:

> Nick:
>
> Leaving a domain and IP fallow for such a long time will end up looking
> like
> my garden did this year when I did the same thing -- overrun with weeds.
>
> Sending a blanket e-mail to NANOG is not going to get the attention of
> those
> who manage the e-mail flow (unless you domain belonged to a Fortune 100).
>
> Just like I should have with my garden, rather than replant among the weed
> seeds and spend 99% of my time pulling weeds, I would recommend sowing a
> new
> field by moving your outbound e-mail server(s) to some fresh address space
> (different /24 to be sure, ideally another section of SWIPed space) and
> start monitoring your outgoing servers logs.  You'll need to work with each
> MTA that blocks your e-mail and ask them to delist you from whatever block
> (domain or domain reputation) that they have.  At the same time,
> systematically go to every RBL that tracks by domain name and check the
> status of your domain and request delisting as necessary.
>
> Regards,
>
> Frank
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nick Shank [mailto:nick () laststop net]
> Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2008 5:51 AM
> To: nanog () nanog org
> Subject: tacid.org
>
> Greetings,
>  My name is Nick, and I have inherited admin duties for tacid.org. For an
> un-known amount of time (A month or more?) mail.tacid.org has been an
> open-relay, and sending out large amounts of spam. This should now be
> fixed.
> If anyone is having issues with this domain still, please contact me off
> list.
> Thank you,
> Nick


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