From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 10 12:32:26 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC9371065670 for ; Thu, 10 Jun 2010 12:32:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from j.mckeown@ru.ac.za) Received: from d.mail.ru.ac.za (d.mail.ru.ac.za [IPv6:2001:4200:1010::25:4]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D0C968FC15 for ; Thu, 10 Jun 2010 12:32:25 +0000 (UTC) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=ru-msa; d=ru.ac.za; h=Received:From:Organization:To:Subject:Date:User-Agent:References:In-Reply-To:X-Face:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-Disposition:Message-Id:X-Virus-Scanned:X-Authenticated-User; b=LSq9+x92GghMEUuUFdD0eWC3WnW8kwywMvEafvlHnFQMTcIqFWBGRRFIUyOjyvYZ3Xg1PbQEznw0g+GM3AWAA7sSKB+BFN4CWDah5HWI6Avmatk1Nyqb/KiThQ2Qo29t; Received: from vorkosigan.ru.ac.za ([2001:4200:1010:1058:219:d1ff:fe9f:a932]:60667) by d.mail.ru.ac.za with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1OMgvn-0008k8-PY for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 10 Jun 2010 14:32:23 +0200 From: Jonathan McKeown Organization: Rhodes University To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 14:32:23 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.10 References: <201006101147.40385.j.mckeown@ru.ac.za> <4C10CB87.1060100@fechner.net> In-Reply-To: X-Face: $@VrUx^RHy/}yu]jKf/<4T%/d|F+$j-Ol2"2J$q+%OK1]&/G_S9(=?utf-8?q?HkaQ*=60!=3FYOK=3FY!=27M=60C=0A=09aP=5C9nVPF8Q=7DCilHH8l=3B=7E!4?= =?utf-8?q?2HK6=273lg4J=7Daz?=@1Dqqh:J]M^"YPn*2IWrZON$1+G?oX3@ =?utf-8?q?k=230=0A=0954XDRg=3DYn=5FF-etwot4U=24b?=dTS{i X-Virus-Scanned: d.mail.ru.ac.za (2001:4200:1010::25:4) X-Authenticated-User: s0900137 from vorkosigan.ru.ac.za (2001:4200:1010:1058:219:d1ff:fe9f:a932) using auth_plaintext Subject: Re: Midphase Hosting X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 12:32:26 -0000 On Thursday 10 June 2010 14:06:46 Rob Farmer wrote: > On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 4:24 AM, Matthias Fechner wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Am 10.06.10 11:47, schrieb Jonathan McKeown: > >> Subject: [#24548754] Re: why does ps |grep sometimes not return itself? > >> Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 02:46:31 -0500 > >> From: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > >> Reply-To: support@mpcustomer.com > >> Message-ID: > > > > I suggest to block on the freebsd server the complete domain > > mpcustomer.com that should solve the problem. > > I haven't received any of the messages, but I think they are being > sent directly to list posters (not via the list) so FreeBSD can't > really do much about it. If mpcustomer.com refuses to deal with it you > can always try complaining to their upstream provider, taking the line > that since the messages are unsolicited and there is no way to > unsubscribe the practice is probably illegal. Well, yes, the message is being sent direct to list posters, but support@mpcustomer.com (or some address that's relaying to it) is presumably subscribed to the list (which I'm guessing was done maliciously), otherwise they wouldn't be receiving these messages. I know it creates work for the admins, but couldn't their address be unsubscribed and banned, given that they have been creating a nuisance for at least the last several weeks now? Jonathan