uol.com.br is now banned from this list

[Mike McCarty]

Craig White wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-11-17 at 10:41 -0700, kwhiskers wrote:
> 
>>I've so far gotten 55 of their spams for the 6 messages I posted
>>last night. I simply ignore them - well, actually I have both those
>>AntiSpam UOL messages blocked in procmail with a moderately specific
>>test but also a more general from uol.com.br at the moment.
>>
>>It's hard to igore them, I'd say.
>>
>>There are so many of them that it is impossible to see the actual
>>thread one's following.
>>
>>I don't know why google/gmail isn't picking it up as spam. It is very
>>successful withthe rest of it.
> 
> ----
> because it is an official bounce-back error type message. Servers do
> what they are supposed to do by RFC.
> 
> The problem is that someone is subscribing with a mail account, bouncing
> it to an account at uol.com.br which has severe anti-spam restrictions
> which is bombarding any sender to this list.
> 
> Self defense dictates that we filter them to /dev/null using
> procmail/sieve on the server, rejects on the server or mail filters in
> your mail program.
> 
> Under the banner of a good offense makes a great defense, I proposed
> some type of tar pit set up by a number of fedora users and within
> minutes, the smtp servers at uol.com.br will be shut down and they will
> investigate the issue.
> 
> Craig
> 
> 

I dunno where you live, but I suspect that in these USA such
would be considered a denial of service attack, and a crimnal
act.

Mike
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