From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 28 7:53:12 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from post-11.mail.nl.demon.net (post-11.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 88BDA37B417 for ; Thu, 28 Feb 2002 07:53:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from [212.238.194.207] (helo=mailhost.raggedclown.net) by post-11.mail.nl.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16gSrf-0006Xc-00 for questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Thu, 28 Feb 2002 15:53:03 +0000 Received: from angel.raggedclown.net (angel.raggedclown.intra [192.168.1.7]) by mailhost.raggedclown.net (Ragged Clown Mail Gateway [buffy]) with ESMTP id 3100113040 for ; Thu, 28 Feb 2002 16:53:03 +0100 (CET) Received: by angel.raggedclown.net (Ragged Clown Host [angel], from userid 1005) id 6D021225C1; Thu, 28 Feb 2002 16:52:58 +0100 (CET) Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 16:52:58 +0100 From: Cliff Sarginson To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: And the abuse continues... Message-ID: <20020228155258.GB2699@raggedclown.net> References: <20020228080046.A19627@freeze.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 10:45:08AM -0500, Tim Wilde wrote: > On Thu, 28 Feb 2002, Jim Freeze wrote: > > > I own freebsdportal.com and 63.106.140.202 is mine. > > But, I have no connection to orbz.org, hootermul.ru or vmadmin.com. > > Well, the stuff from orbz.org is an automated relay tester. It's > harmless, and some would consider it to be a good thing; in theory, at > least, it will notify you if you happen to be running an open relay > without knowing it. Some of the various other ones may also be part of > the relay tests, or just random spammers doing their own relay scans. > It's a normal part of being a host on the Internet, and as long as your > mail server is secured, you should have nothing to worry about. > I would say, FYI, that at least 3 or 4 emails a day from this list, and I mean legit emails, not Spam, get flagged by my spam checker as being relayed through known spam relays. When I see they are legit I whitelist them, but even so..it continues. certain countries appear often, Russia for example. -- Regards Cliff Sarginson -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message