List spam

[nodata]

On Sat, 2005-07-23 at 19:10 -0500, Damian Menscher wrote:
> 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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I'll do this as a second stage.
I'm against the whole "prove I exist" thing so that I can contact
someone who is spamming though.