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Re: Bizarre (.bz) abuse report - are we alone?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay Hennigan)
Sun Aug 26 23:07:23 2012

Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2012 20:06:36 -0700
From: Jay Hennigan <jay@west.net>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <CAArzuoukyDXy0P+h45LA7rJQ3r22LGWRD21oPCh3GoThmahJow@mail.gmail.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org

On 8/26/12 7:55 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
> This is almost certainly sent by some idiot hand reporting spam /
> desktop firewall alerts, with a fake address because he thinks
> everybody out there is a spammer.

I would agree except abuse.bz indeed is a real domain and also the
apparent source of the email.

They may be some sort of amplification/referral service for idiot
desktop firewall alerts but they have no web presence and Google turns
up very little.

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