Date: Mon, 29 Jun 1998 13:18:15 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Too much spam from uu.net Message-ID: <19980629131815.M897@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <1186.899090500@time.cdrom.com>; from Jordan K. Hubbard on Sun, Jun 28, 1998 at 08:21:40PM -0700 References: <1186.899090500@time.cdrom.com>
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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
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