[76771] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Spam Abuse Script from The World (roky@shell.TheWorld.com)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Hannigan, Martin)
Mon Dec 27 10:03:47 2004
From: "Hannigan, Martin" <hannigan@verisign.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2004 10:02:33 -0500
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
[ Sorry for the list post, but the mailbox bounces for me ]
I responded with bzs' direct email addr last week when this was
posted and I receieved a bounce.
Regardless, it's all off-topic for NANOG. I think spam-l would
be a good place to carry this on, but as it's been pointed out
over the last 14 days, it's a user and not the World's abuse desk
so even Spam-L may not want to hear about it.
If you still can't reach anyone, 617-739-0202 seems to be answered
by clued (and awake) folks.
Best,
-M<
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(reason: 553 http://www.spamhaus.org/query/bl?ip=216.168.239.71)
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550 5.1.1 <davidu@everydns.net>... User unknown
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Martin Hannigan (c) 617-388-2663
VeriSign, Inc. (w) 703-948-7018
Network Engineer IV Operations & Infrastructure
hannigan@verisign.com
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu]On Behalf Of
> David A. Ulevitch
> Sent: Saturday, December 25, 2004 11:57 PM
> To: nanog@merit.edu
> Subject: Re: Spam Abuse Script from The World
> (roky@shell.TheWorld.com)
>
>
>
>
> <quote who="Joe Johnson">
> > I
> > have been getting automated scripts from roky@shell.theworld.com for
> > weeks that have no way to respond, but threaten FVI and
> Innerwise, and
> > report to all their upstreams.
>
> I posted to NANOG about this issue week or so back.[1] There
> is nobody
> behind the wheel at The World and they continue to send out this odd
> anti-spam spam. Really, it's worse than the spam we recieve
> because they
> CC everyone from the FTC to our upstreams and everyone in
> between and we
> are forced to respond to our upstreams.
>
> > If a real person at The World wants someone who still works
> at FVI that
> > they can contact, I would happily provide them an address.
> However, in
> > the mean time, STOP SPAMMING ME ABOUT YOUR SPAM.
> >
>
> Eric Brunner-Williams kindly tried to connect our abuse desk to a Mr.
> Barry Shein but it was to no avail. They failed to respond
> to anything we
> sent them to resolve the complaint and they continued to send
> the harshly
> worded emails to us and our upstreams.
>
> Some folks emailed me privately to suggest the emails are
> coming from one
> of their users but I believe this is not the case. Many more folks
> emailed offlist to share their frustration at this spam
> coming from The
> World. Sadly, there was no resolution to this issue, we
> simply closed the
> tickets on our end and have long since moved on to more productive
> matters.
>
> -david
>
> 1: http://www.merit.edu/mail.archives/nanog/msg03610.html
>
> ----------------------------------------------------
> David A. Ulevitch - Founder, EveryDNS.Net
> http://david.ulevitch.com -- http://everydns.net
> ----------------------------------------------------
>
