From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Jun 28 20:48:32 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA29759 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Sun, 28 Jun 1998 20:48:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [139.130.136.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA29754 for ; Sun, 28 Jun 1998 20:48:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.0/8.9.0) id NAA01415; Mon, 29 Jun 1998 13:18:15 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19980629131815.M897@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Mon, 29 Jun 1998 13:18:15 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Too much spam from uu.net References: <1186.899090500@time.cdrom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <1186.899090500@time.cdrom.com>; from Jordan K. Hubbard on Sun, Jun 28, 1998 at 08:21:40PM -0700 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sunday, 28 June 1998 at 20:21:40 -0700, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > Sorry for the -hackers posting here, but this will reach the people > most likely to be affected. > > Despite their frequent protests to the contrary, uu.net remains the > single largest origin of spam abuse for our mailing lists and their > policy of apparently re-selling dialup access to secondary ISPs who do > *not* necessarily have to have stringent anti-spam policies of their > own only makes this even worse. After the most recent spamming from > one of "uu.net's" dialups (and god only knows which affiliate is > actually responsible for it), I've taken it upon myself to add them to > freebsd.org's spammer list. This is a purely provisional move until > we figure out how extensive the side-effects of this will be, it > perhaps becoming a permanant block if the problem does not abate and > not too terribly many folks are inconvenienced by it. From those who > will get much less spam as a result of this move, I also doubt that > too many tears will be shed for uu.net. How many mailing list users will this affect? Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message