[158748] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Possibly a little OT, has spam in theme
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tom Vest)
Sun Dec 9 13:03:46 2012
From: Tom Vest <tvest@eyeconomics.com>
In-Reply-To: <201212091639.qB9Gd6ZS029210@world.std.com>
Date: Sun, 9 Dec 2012 13:03:33 -0500
To: Barry Shein <bzs@world.std.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Actually it's in Japanese. Nifty is one of the oldest (and at one time, =
largest) access services in Japan. It's owned by owned by Fujitsu.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nifty_Corporation
http://www.nifty.co.jp/english/
=46rom here it looks like it's originated by AS2510, which is also =
Fujistsu.
So "it" is legitimate, even if the unwanted traffic your receiving is =
not.
TV
On Dec 9, 2012, at 11:39 AM, Barry Shein wrote:
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> What is nifty.com? Is it legitimate? The web page is in Chinese.
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> I noticed they were trying to do a lot of connects to our mail servers
> but were in the block list and seem to have been for years.
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> So I opened it up because fool that I am I like to believe people mend
> their ways.
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> It instantly began flooding us with spam, lottery-office@whatever,
> dictionary attacks, that kind of thing.
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> So I blocked them again. I've never had a customer complaint about
> this block.
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> It's making me lose faith in humanity, a little.
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> Totally gratuitous internet governance snark:
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> And they're meeting in Dubai because some countries believe they can
> be the new sheriff in town? HAH! We've got a hundred million
> teenagers with whiskey and loaded shotguns roaming the landscape and
> they think it's just a matter of showing a little authority from
> people with snappy new uniforms...good luck with that buckaroos!
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> --=20
> -Barry Shein
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