Re: NANOG List Server on several BlockLists

[Joseph S D Yao <jsdy () center osis gov>]

On Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 06:10:23PM -0400, Jim Popovitch wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-07-26 at 18:00 -0400, Jim Popovitch wrote:
> > On Tue, 2005-07-26 at 16:49 -0500, John Palmer wrote:
> > > FYI: The IP address of the mail server that sends out NANOG list
> > > messages
> > > (198.108.1.26) is once again on most of the major RBLs. 
> >
> > I only see it on one listing and that is for dnsbl.sorbs.net.
> >
> > http://www.completewhois.com/cgi-bin/rbl_lookup.cgi?query=198.108.1.26
> >
> > According to sorbs, the record was created Jul-26 02:31:29 2005 and
> > spamtrap trigger email was... 
> >
> >    Received: from trapdoor.merit.edu (trapdoor.merit.edu [198.108.1.26])
> >     by desperado.sorbs.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id DEF0111428 for
> >     <[email]>; Sat, 18 Jun 2005 14:55:42 +1000 (EST)
> >
> >
> > -Jim P.
>
> And of course for my well-intended effort I get the following terse
> auto-reply declaring that I am a low life with bad intentions and a bad
> image.  Wait a minute, I don't have free-email from Yahoo!, I pay for
> it. ;-)
>
> -Jim P.
>
> On Tue, 2005-07-26 at 18:51 -0400, John Palmer (NANOG Acct) wrote:
> > Hi. This is the TMDA program at adns.net.
> > I'm afraid I wasn't able to deliver your message to the following
> > addresses.
> > This is a permanent error; I've given up. Sorry it didn't work out.
> > This is probably because this is an  internal account that no one is 
> > supposed to be sending mail to. If you are  sending it mail, you are
> > probably a low-life, bottom feeding scum sucking spammer who will
> > burn in hell. NO addresses at this domain EVER want to hear from you.
> >
> > If your account is at YAHOO.COM or one of the other "free" services,
> > we are rejecting your mail because most all of the people using
> > these services are spammers or most spammers forge non-existent 
> > addresses with these services as their return address. If you 
> > have one of these accounts, you should realize that a large percentage
> > of the internet will reject your mail because free services attract
> > low-lifes that usually have bad intentions and ISP engineers know
> > this and reject such mail. You should upgrade your image on the
> > internet by paying for a real e-mail account. Sorry, but thats just
> > reality. 


Well, I guess he'll never see messages from you, and never realize that
he is wishing you to be damned to hell.  Who loses more?


-- 
Joe Yao
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