From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 10 13:30:45 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 E286D106566C for ; Thu, 10 Jun 2010 13:30:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk) Received: from smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (gate6.infracaninophile.co.uk [IPv6:2001:8b0:151:1::1]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4FDCD8FC15 for ; Thu, 10 Jun 2010 13:30:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from seedling.black-earth.co.uk (seedling.black-earth.co.uk [81.187.76.163]) (authenticated bits=0) by smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id o5ADUegg075597 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Thu, 10 Jun 2010 14:30:41 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk) Message-ID: <4C10E900.2070002@infracaninophile.co.uk> Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 14:30:40 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman Organization: Infracaninophile User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100317 Thunderbird/3.0.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jonathan McKeown References: <201006101147.40385.j.mckeown@ru.ac.za> <201006101432.23605.j.mckeown@ru.ac.za> <4C10E2F5.70806@infracaninophile.co.uk> <201006101512.48246.j.mckeown@ru.ac.za> In-Reply-To: <201006101512.48246.j.mckeown@ru.ac.za> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.0.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: clamav-milter 0.96.1 at lucid-nonsense.infracaninophile.co.uk X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Status: No, score=1.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_50,DKIM_ADSP_ALL, SPF_FAIL autolearn=no version=3.3.1 X-Spam-Level: * X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on lucid-nonsense.infracaninophile.co.uk Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 13:30:46 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 10/06/2010 14:12:48, Jonathan McKeown wrote: > Isn't that called VERP (variable envelope return path)? I agree - the load it Dat's der bunny. > would impose isn't worth it. I'm just shocked that midphase care so little > about their reputation or the impression this is giving, on one of the more > widely-archived mailing lists, of their competence and diligence. Who knows? I suspect if the story got carried on slashdot or theregister it might cause their management to wake up. Or if the story started showing up on the first page of a Google search. (Fat chance of that though -- they've obviously been working hard on the SEO) Until then, as someone upthread said, block them using your access DB if you run your own sendmail based mail system. The equivalents for people running other MTAs are left as exercises for interested students. If you don't have your own mail system, then I suspect that it will be quite hard for you to arrange to block the e-mail from midphase. Cheers, Matthew - -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ramsgate JID: matthew@infracaninophile.co.uk Kent, CT11 9PW -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.14 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkwQ6QAACgkQ8Mjk52CukIzHNgCgg1hFw5qMkPNA0y+wV33fyA54 A+cAn22AA51QJqYsN3EdLAobF1oTGEW7 =+8uO -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----