List spam

Damian Menscher menscher at uiuc.edu
Sun Jul 24 00:10:08 UTC 2005


On Sat, 23 Jul 2005, nodata wrote:
> On Sat, 2005-07-23 at 13:23 -0400, Roy wrote:
>> On Sat, 2005-07-23 at 17:09 +0100, Paul Howarth wrote:
>>> On Sat, 2005-07-23 at 18:06 +0200, nodata wrote:
>>>> wtogami: Please can you unsubscribe "peter.whalley at uol.com.br" from the
>>>> list. He's spamming everyone.
>>>>
>>>> This has been requested before:
>>>>  https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2005-April/msg00449.html
>>>
>>> And before that too. The problem is: he's not subscribed, at least not
>>> at that address (it must be being forwarded to there from somewhere
>>> else, and nobody knows which address that is).
>>
>> Wonder what would happen if these were consistently forwarded to
>> something like SpamCop or something, and the block ended up in a DNSBL
>> somewhere. Figure someone at uol.com.br might find out where the forward
>> connection is and "remedy" the situation?
>
> I've reported the problem to their abuse department, and (bizarrely) to
> cert brazil, as suggested by the "remarks" section of their whois
> record. Let's see if they can help..

It's probably simpler than that... I suggest we all actually fill out 
his silly challenge-reponse thing, and then send him a few dozen emails 
with megabyte-sized attachments.  Make sure each email includes a 
message body saying something about not sending autoreplies to this 
list.  Surely the sysadmin would notice when the user's inbox starts 
taking a could hundred meg (or gig)?

Note: I'm not advocating vigilantism here -- just suggesting a way where 
we could get their attention (possibly the attention of the user, or, if 
that fails, the attention of the sysadmin).

Damian Menscher
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