What's this 'Antispam UOL'

[Patrick Barnes]

On Tuesday 07 March 2006 21:52, Parameshwara Bhat wrote:
> Dear List,
>
> Nowadays I regularly recive replies to my postings from 'AntiSpam UOL
> <petsupermarket.sspam at uol.com.br>'.Though there appears to be discussions
> on this on the list,having not followed from the beginning,I could not
> make any sense of it.
>
> If the full header is listed,message seems to go from one shadow5 to
> uol.com.br whose antispam returns the message.Produced below.
>
> 	Received: 	from shadow5 (unknown [172.26.5.186]) by sauron6.uol.com.br
> (Postfix) with ESMTP id BECC26C2261 for <peebhat at gmail.com>; Tue, 7 Mar
> 2006 04:46:39 -0300 (BRT)
>
> Who is this shadow5 (172.26.5.185)?How my message went to this server?
>  From gmail SMTP or fedora-list server? or from my ISP on the way?
>
> Thanks a lot.
>
> Parameshwara Bhat

shadow5 is part of UOL's network.  This whole thing is part of a crazy 
anti-spam setup that is horribly broken.  UOL is completely ignorant.  We 
haven't been able to track down the subscriber that has their mail forwarded 
to UOL, so we can't eliminate this problem at the listserver end.

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/UOL

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