Date: Tue, 30 Jun 1998 19:24:30 -0500 From: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> To: spork <spork@super-g.com> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Too much spam from uu.net Message-ID: <199807010024.TAA11744@nospam.hiwaay.net> In-Reply-To: Message from spork <spork@super-g.com> of "Tue, 30 Jun 1998 01:39:51 EDT." <Pine.BSF.3.96.980630013724.14127C-100000@super-g.inch.com>
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spork writes: > How hard is it to allow uu.net mail relays, but no direct connections from > dialups, ie: foo.tnt.foo.uu.net is blocked but smtp.uu.net is not? I'm > looking to do something like this here, but haven't revisited sendmail in > some time. There's no reason for a dialup connection to send me (or > anyone else) mail directly. They should be sending via their ISP's relay > instead. Some spam directly from their dialup, others don't seem to mind letting uu.net's hosts do it. I'm thinking seriously about the Death Penalty for all uu.net processed email to my personal account. All of the following were forwarded to abuse@uu.net. Snips from my spam folder: Received: from gte.net (1Cust30.tnt3.redondo-beach.ca.da.uu.net [208.252.35.30]) by mail.HiWAAY.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with SMTP id FAA28616; Tue, 30 Jun 1998 05:49:36 -0500 (CDT) Received: from relay1.UU.NET (relay1.UU.NET [192.48.96.5]) by mail.HiWAAY.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id CAA12051 for <dkelly@hiwaay.net>; Tue, 30 Jun 1998 02:32:56 -0500 (CDT) Received: from LOCALNAME by relay1.UU.NET with SMTP (peer crosschecked as: 1Cust192.tnt10.nyc3.da.uu.net [153.37.131.192]) id QQevyz20480; Tue, 30 Jun 1998 03:28:02 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mail2.yahoo.com (1Cust236.tnt23.atl2.da.uu.net [153.34.31.236]) by mail.HiWAAY.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with SMTP id WAA16128; Sun, 28 Jun 1998 22:43:18 -0500 (CDT) Received: from 153.37.9.203 (1Cust203.tnt3.sfo3.da.uu.net [153.37.9.203]) by mail.HiWAAY.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with SMTP id OAA12526; Sun, 28 Jun 1998 14:10:17 -0500 (CDT) Received: from smtp0-alterdial.uu.net (smtp0-alterdial.UU.NET [192.48.96.28]) by mail.HiWAAY.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id FAA19141 for <dkelly@hiwaay.net>; Sun, 28 Jun 1998 05:54:22 -0500 (CDT) Received: from anonymous by smtp0-alterdial.uu.net with SMTP (peer crosschecked as: wck-ca7-11.ix.netcom.com [204.31.231.43]) id QQevsd13937; Sun, 28 Jun 1998 10:52:52 GMT Received: from river99 (1Cust234.tnt18.atl2.da.uu.net [153.36.118.234]) by mail.HiWAAY.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with SMTP id BAA15638; Sun, 28 Jun 1998 01:48:04 -0500 (CDT) Received: from smtp0-alterdial.uu.net (smtp0-alterdial.UU.NET [192.48.96.28]) by mail.HiWAAY.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id AAA16714 for <dkelly@hiwaay.net>; Sun, 28 Jun 1998 00:26:19 -0500 (CDT) Received: from anonymous by smtp0-alterdial.uu.net with SMTP (peer crosschecked as: 146.san-francisco-12.ca.dial-access.att.net [12.64.126.146]) id QQevrh28561; Sun, 28 Jun 1998 05:24:42 GMT -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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