[100897] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: unwise filtering policy from cox.net
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu)
Tue Nov 20 19:23:10 2007
To: "Raymond L. Corbin" <rcorbin@hostmysite.com>
Cc: goemon@anime.net, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 20 Nov 2007 18:45:50 EST."
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From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2007 19:21:17 -0500
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
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On Tue, 20 Nov 2007 18:45:50 EST, "Raymond L. Corbin" said:
> 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
I've seen my share of 800-pound gorillas (we're talking the 10M+ customer
range) who have bounced postmaster@ and/or abuse@ due to 'mailbox is full'. So
it isn't just small ISPs in little corners of the world...
My favorite was an abuse@ bounce from a smaller shop that read something like:
451 <abuse@smallshop.com> Mailbox Full of complaints, even though we nuked their butts 3 days ago.
(I'm sure many readers of the list know *that* feeling - you found and fixed
the problem before the first complaint arrives, but you still get deluged by
more complaints for another week or so...)
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