Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 08:25:15 -0800 From: Josef Grosch <jgrosch@MooseRiver.com> To: brian@planetshwoop.com Cc: www@freebsd.org Subject: Re: your mail Message-ID: <20050119162515.GA70979@gdead.mooseriver.com> In-Reply-To: <de1ad2fe050119051331ccc64e@mail.gmail.com>
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On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 07:13:56AM -0600, Brian Sobolak wrote: > Hi Giorgos - > > I've copied and pasted the message below that I received from Josef. > It's at the bottom. > > I can only guess that somehow the message didn't make it through originally? > > brian Hello Giorgos, I tried just now to send email to you at freebsd.org but mx1.freebsd.org rejected my email with "Helo command rejected: Host not found (in reply to RCPT TO command)" It seems my postfix setup is not correct. sigh. I confirm the below story. Please remove the listing for chifug.org until such time as it is back in our, the FreeBSD community, possession. Josef > > ---------------------------- > On Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 07:49:18AM -0600, Brian Sobolak wrote: > > Giorgos Keramidas said: > > > On 2005-01-10 22:23, Brian Sobolak <sobolak@gmail.com> wrote: > > >> Hi - > > >> > > >> The listing for the Chicago user group on this page > > >> <http://www.freebsd.org/usergroups.html>; is no longer correct. > > >> Unfortunately the domain has been snagged by a spammer. > > > > > > AFAICT, the http://www.chifug.org/ web page is still up. Is there any > > > way we can verify your group has indeed switched to ufo.chicago.il.us? > > > > Josef Grosch originally registered the CHIFUG site and lost the > > domain. I've cc'ed him on this message so he can chime in and confirm > > the spammer status. > > > > (Whilte the site is still up, if you mouseover the mailto: link at the > > bottom, you can see that the mail points to a different domain. If > > you follow that domain, it's pretty obviously a spam-site as it has > > numerous unsavory links.) > > > > UFO Chicago is a separate group from CHIFUG. However, since we are > > BSD-friendly, I'd love it if we could include it in the user-group > > listing. > > > > > > >> Please replace it with: > > >> > > >> o Chicago, IL - The Users of Free Operating Systems (UFO Chicago) is a > > >> open-source Unix user group that meets twice a month in Chicago. For > > >> directions and mailing list info, please check out our website > > >> http://ufo.chicago.il.us. > > > > > Hello, > > This is Josef Grosch. Brian is correct. I did register chifug.org several > years ago. I lost the domain to a spammer last year. Check the whois on > chifug.org and the web site with links on the right hand side. Also the > mailto at the bottom of the page does not send email to chifug.org but to > sbip.org. Further tracing of domains, registrars and hosting companies lead > to bascily spammers. > > With any luck I should be able to grab this domain back when it expires > May. > > > Josef > > > -- > Brian Sobolak > http://www.planetshwoop.com/ > > !DSPAM:41ee5d23680694961810930! > > -- Josef Grosch | Another day closer to a | FreeBSD 5.3 jgrosch@MooseRiver.com | Micro$oft free world | Berkeley, Ca. -- Josef Grosch | Another day closer to a | FreeBSD 5.2.1 jgrosch@MooseRiver.com | Micro$oft free world | Berkeley, Ca.
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