[100896] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: unwise filtering policy from cox.net
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Raymond L. Corbin)
Tue Nov 20 18:47:17 2007
Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2007 18:45:50 -0500
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0711201118070.9033@sasami.anime.net>
From: "Raymond L. Corbin" <rcorbin@hostmysite.com>
To: <goemon@anime.net>, <nanog@merit.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Heh better then my all time favorite was the "mailbox is full" reply
from an abuse@ address for an ISP based in Nigeria who had a few servers
trying to open umpteen fraud accounts :D
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu] On Behalf Of
goemon@anime.net
Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2007 2:21 PM
To: 'nanog@merit.edu'
Subject: unwise filtering policy from cox.net
if anyone from cox.net is reading...
----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
<abuse@cox.net>
(reason: 552 5.2.0 F77u1Y00B2ccxfT0000000 Message Refused. A URL
in the content of your message was found on...uribl.com. For resolution
do not contact Cox Communications, contact the block list
administrators.)
This seems a rather unwise policy on behalf of cox.net -- their
customers=20
can originate scam emails, but cox.net abuse desk apparently does not
care=20
to hear about it.
