From owner-freebsd-isp Mon May 25 06:47:38 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA19770 for freebsd-isp-outgoing; Mon, 25 May 1998 06:47:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mailhost.xciv.org (exim@vantage.xciv.org [193.128.6.138]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id GAA19764 for ; Mon, 25 May 1998 06:47:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from paul@xciv.org) Received: from vantage.xciv.org [193.128.6.138] (paul) by mailhost.xciv.org with esmtp (Exim 1.70 #1) id 0ydxbA-0004X2-00; Mon, 25 May 1998 14:47:32 +0100 To: isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SMTP Relay probing - Should I follow up - advice? Organization: XCIV, London UK Reply-To: paul@xciv.org In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 25 May 1998 12:05:53 BST." <35695091.FE0ACF50@tdx.co.uk> Date: Mon, 25 May 1998 14:47:30 +0100 From: Paul Civati Message-Id: Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Karl Pielorz wrote: > My question is - I have the IP address these came from, they are a Spamming > Company by the look of it, and to be honest I'm sick of this sort of > thing... Me and you both. > Is it worth me mailing the people? - Or should I just be grateful we weren't > used as a relay and let them be? If they are known spammers and that is their business then mailing them will be a waste of time I would think. On the other hand, it depends on who their upstream provider is, complaining to their upstream might do some good if they have a policy against their customers abusing the 'net in this way. Seee if their upstream has an AUP, etc. > I'm just annoyed a company that obviously has set out to specialise in > spam/electronic mailing lists doesn't even use it's own servers to send the > damned stuff out... Well, yes, otherwise their IP blocks would soon be well known and people would just block them, get them put on MAPS RBL, etc. Which would put them out of business. -Paul- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message