[11673] in North American Network Operators' Group
spam relaying by the big boys
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jon Lewis)
Fri Aug 8 00:50:47 1997
Date: Thu, 7 Aug 1997 23:16:30 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jon Lewis <jlewis@inorganic5.fdt.net>
To: nanog@merit.edu
cc: help@uu.net
Just yesterday, UUNet released a statement on it's anti-spam policy, which
included:
UUNET's anti-spamming policy includes:
- limiting the length of email recipient lists;
- blacklisting mail sent from known spamming locations or organizations;
- maintaining a mailbox (abuse@uu.net) which allows victims to report spam
incidents;
Imagine my surprise when I bounced some newly received spam to
abuse@uu.net and received the following response:
----- 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
Oh joy!
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