[11672] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: spam relaying by the big boys
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Phil Howard)
Fri Aug 8 00:32:52 1997
From: Phil Howard <phil@charon.milepost.com>
To: moleary@ironlight.com (Myk O'Leary)
Date: Thu, 7 Aug 1997 23:24:16 -0500 (CDT)
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199708080407.VAA29034@quagmire.> from "Myk O'Leary" at Aug 7, 97 09:07:42 pm
Earlier, Myk O'Leary said:
>
> Earlier, Jon Lewis said:
> >
> > ----- 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
>
> Connected to mail.uu.net.
> Escape character is '^]'.
> 220 relay1.UU.NET ESMTP
> vrfy fsdf
> 550 fsdf... User unknown
> vrfy abuse
> 250 <abuse@relay1.UU.NET>
> quit
> 221 relay1.UU.NET closing connection
> --
So the PR department got the word out before the sysadmins got the mailbox
created? So which department is overloaded?
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