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spam relaying by the big boys
From: Jon Lewis <jlewis () inorganic5 fdt net>
Date: Thu, 7 Aug 1997 23:16:30 -0400 (EDT)
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 (abuse () uu net) which allows victims to report spam incidents; Imagine my surprise when I bounced some newly received spam to abuse () uu net and received the following response: ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors ----- <abuse () uu net> ----- Transcript of session follows ----- ... while talking to mail.uu.net.:
RCPT To:<abuse () uu net>
<<< 550 <abuse () uu net>... User unknown 550 <abuse () uu net>... User unknown Oh joy! ------------------------------------------------------------------ Jon Lewis <jlewis () fdt net> | 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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- spam relaying by the big boys Jon Lewis (Aug 08)
- Re: spam relaying by the big boys Christopher Masto (Aug 08)
- Re: spam relaying by the big boys Chip Rosenthal (Aug 08)
- Re: spam relaying by the big boys Greg A. Woods (Aug 08)
- Re: spam relaying by the big boys Myk O'Leary (Aug 08)
- Re: spam relaying by the big boys Phil Howard (Aug 08)
- Re: spam relaying by the big boys Steve Mansfield (Aug 08)
- Re: spam relaying by the big boys Myk O'Leary (Aug 08)
- Re: spam relaying by the big boys wb8foz (Aug 08)
- Re: spam relaying by the big boys Phil Howard (Aug 08)
- Re: spam relaying by the big boys Christopher Masto (Aug 08)