uol.com.br is now banned from this list

[Wong Kwok-hon]

On 11/18/05, Gene Heskett <gene.heskett at verizon.net> wrote:
> On Thursday 17 November 2005 23:53, Wong Kwok-hon wrote:
> >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
> >
> >Wong Kwok Hon
>
> We may be getting somewhere with this.  Its harrassing the debian list
> too, and one customer of this ISP suggested we in turn harrass a regular
> list of addresses, so I'm forwarding everything I get to:
> abuse at uol.com.br, uol at uol.com.br, security at uol.com.br,
> mail-abuse at cert.br
>
> Just for effects mind you, and I'm adding a header line X-Clueless Twit
> with a value of SPAMMER :)
>
> As usual though, no response.  Warrens actions seems to have pretty
> well slowed the flood here.
>
> --
> Cheers, Gene

Therefore I set a filter to make them to the trash bin when I got. :)

Wong Kwok Hon