Re: gte.net

[Angi and Tim <angiandtim () QWEST NET>]

Try opsmgr () BELLATLANTIC COM.  That has worked for me a few times in the
past.

Tim

----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael DeSimone" <michael () DESIMONE NET>
To: <INCIDENTS () SECURITYFOCUS COM>
Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2001 10:49 AM
Subject: Re: gte.net


> Having run gte.net mail in the past (prior to verizon granted) there was 1
> (one) guy who handled abuse mail. Also the cable in the IP address
> designates a cable modem user which was outsourced through road runner, a
> year and a half ago it was at least. So you could try them as well. When I
> was there we had vrfy turned off . They should still be running intermail
> from software.com distributed across a large number of machines. I am not
> sure that the vrfy is even accurate because of this.
>
> Michael DeSimone
> Computers & Stuff
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Digital Overdrive" <digiover () DSINET ORG>
> To: <INCIDENTS () SECURITYFOCUS COM>
> Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2001 10:23 PM
> Subject: Re: gte.net
>
>
> > Peter Masloch wrote:
> > > Hi list,
> > > does anybody here on the list know who i can contact by
> > > gte.net regarding spam?
> > > I (my mailserver) have received in the last 24 hours over
> > > 12000 e-mails from this guy at cable31-080.gte.net[24.96.60.80]
> > > I already tryed to contact gte.net over abuse () gte net and asked
> > > them to investigate this but i didn't get any answer.
> > > It is realy becoming a problem since this large ammount of e-mails
> > > is slowing down my mailserver and some of my 7000 user are getting
> > > a little bit pissed off.....
> > > Thank you
> >
> > telnet mail.gte.net 25
> >
> > 220 smtppop1pub.verizon.net; ESMTP Wed, 21 Mar 2001 00:11:21 -0600 (CST)
> >
> > vrfy root
> > 250 <root () smtppop1pub verizon net>
> > vrfy abuse
> > 550 abuse... User unknown
> > vrfy hostmaster
> > 550 hostmaster... User unknown
> > vrfy postmaster
> > 250 <postmaster () smtppop1pub verizon net>
> >
> > So sent your abusemail to postmaster () smtppop1pub verizon net
> > I've used PuTTY and I had to type "blind", so I couldn't copy/paste the
> > whole telnet session.
> >
> > Goodluck (and remember http://www.spamcop.net)
> >
> > Digital Overdrive
> >
> > Dutch Security Information Network
> > http://www.dsinet.org