nanog mailing list archives

RE: Spam Abuse Script from The World (roky () shell TheWorld com)


From: "Hannigan, Martin" <hannigan () verisign com>
Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2004 10:02:33 -0500




[ Sorry for the list post, but the mailbox bounces for me ]

I responded with bzs' direct email addr last week when this was
posted and I receieved a bounce. 

Regardless, it's all off-topic for NANOG. I think spam-l would
be a good place to carry this on, but as it's been pointed out
over the last 14 days, it's a user and not the World's abuse desk
so even Spam-L may not want to hear about it.

If you still can't reach anyone, 617-739-0202 seems to be answered
by clued (and awake) folks.

Best,


-M<



   ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
<davidu () everydns net>
    (reason: 553 http://www.spamhaus.org/query/bl?ip=216.168.239.71)

   ----- Transcript of session follows -----
... while talking to mail.everydns.net.:
RCPT To:<davidu () everydns net>
<<< 553 http://www.spamhaus.org/query/bl?ip=216.168.239.71
550 5.1.1 <davidu () everydns net>... User unknown




--
Martin Hannigan                         (c) 617-388-2663
VeriSign, Inc.                          (w) 703-948-7018
Network Engineer IV                       Operations & Infrastructure
hannigan () verisign com



-----Original Message-----
From: owner-nanog () merit edu [mailto:owner-nanog () merit edu]On Behalf Of
David A. Ulevitch
Sent: Saturday, December 25, 2004 11:57 PM
To: nanog () merit edu
Subject: Re: Spam Abuse Script from The World 
(roky () shell TheWorld com)




<quote who="Joe Johnson">
I
have been getting automated scripts from roky () shell theworld com for
weeks that have no way to respond, but threaten FVI and 
Innerwise, and
report to all their upstreams.

I posted to NANOG about this issue week or so back.[1]  There 
is nobody
behind the wheel at The World and they continue to send out this odd
anti-spam spam.  Really, it's worse than the spam we recieve 
because they
CC everyone from the FTC to our upstreams and everyone in 
between and we
are forced to respond to our upstreams.

If a real person at The World wants someone who still works 
at FVI that
they can contact, I would happily provide them an address.  
However, in
the mean time, STOP SPAMMING ME ABOUT YOUR SPAM.


Eric Brunner-Williams kindly tried to connect our abuse desk to a Mr.
Barry Shein but it was to no avail.  They failed to respond 
to anything we
sent them to resolve the complaint and they continued to send 
the harshly
worded emails to us and our upstreams.

Some folks emailed me privately to suggest the emails are 
coming from one
of their users but I believe this is not the case.  Many more folks
emailed offlist to share their frustration at this spam 
coming from The
World.  Sadly, there was no resolution to this issue, we 
simply closed the
tickets on our end and have long since moved on to more productive
matters.

-david

1: http://www.merit.edu/mail.archives/nanog/msg03610.html

----------------------------------------------------
   David A. Ulevitch - Founder, EveryDNS.Net
   http://david.ulevitch.com -- http://everydns.net
----------------------------------------------------



Current thread: