[18767] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Fw: open relays at Earthlink
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Becker)
Mon Aug 17 13:25:02 1998
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1998 13:09:07 -0400 (EDT)
From: Bill Becker <bbecker@iconn.net>
To: "Adam D. McKenna" <adam@flounder.net>
cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <05f201bdc9f3$9740bc80$e50984a9@flounder.telecom.idt.net>
On Mon, 17 Aug 1998, Adam D. McKenna wrote:
> Received: from gull.prod.itd.earthlink.net (gull.prod.itd.earthlink.net
> [207.217.120.85]) by hq.idt.net (8.8.8/8.8.8/TANNHAUSER) with ESMTP id
> JAA12380 for <adam@hq.idt.net>; Mon, 17 Aug 1998 09:42:44 -0400 (EDT)
> Received: from mail.earthlink.net (1Cust162.tnt2.sdg1.da.uu.net
> [208.250.122.162])
This probably means that Earthlink is renting uunet ports for their dialup
business. You can complain to abuse@uunet about spam originating from
1Cust162.tnt2.sdg1.da.uu.net, but they will do nothing except forward
your complaint to someone else (the reseller). It can take anywhere
between 3 days and a week for them to stop a spammer. One has been
operating out of .nyc*.da.uu.net for a couple of months now.
The uunet abuse staff doesn't enforce the uunet AUP unless uunet is
billing the user directly, so you might try emailing noc@uunet if the
spammer is online. Last time i looked, the uunet NOC was still acting
in a responsible manner.
Bill
