uol.com.br is now banned from this list

[jdow]

From: "Wong Kwok-hon" <kwokhon at gmail.com>

> On 11/17/05, Warren Togami <wtogami at redhat.com> wrote:
>> James Wilkinson wrote:
>> > Warren Togami wrote:
>> >
>> >>Effective immediately I am not allowing any @uol.com.br subscriptions 
>> >>to
>> >>fedora-list.  It seems that people who post to the list are getting
>> >>spammed from uol.com.br.  This is not the first time this has happened.
>> >
>> >
>> > Note that there is still a petsupermarket at uol.com.br subscribed to the
>> > list (maybe under a different address) and sending "confirmation"
>> > e-mails.
>> >
>> > Actually, it just sent me *four* confirmation e-mails, so I imagine 
>> > that
>> > the twit's been wondering why he isn't getting any of his Fedora list
>> > e-mails, and has tried resubscribing multiple times.
>> >
>> > James (editing his .procmailrc)
>> >
>>
>> It seems to be even stupider than this.  If you don't respond to the
>> uol.com.br bounce, it re-sends it every 2 hours.  This is some horribly
>> broken stupidity for a lage ISP.  I wonder of our IS folks would mind
>> just blacklisting the entire domain at the SMTP level...
>>
>
> But I found that the .br site sending me email for 4 hours with 15mins 
> interval

The last one that targeted was three challenges within two minutes total.
This is severely broken behavior. Such an ISP needs a clue stick rammed
up the orifice they usually sit upon, eh?

{^_-}