uol.com.br is now banned from this list

Warren Togami wtogami at redhat.com
Thu Nov 17 08:05:51 UTC 2005


James Wilkinson wrote:
> Warren Togami wrote:
> 
>>Effective immediately I am not allowing any @uol.com.br subscriptions to 
>>fedora-list.  It seems that people who post to the list are getting 
>>spammed from uol.com.br.  This is not the first time this has happened.
> 
> 
> Note that there is still a petsupermarket at uol.com.br subscribed to the
> list (maybe under a different address) and sending "confirmation"
> e-mails.
> 
> Actually, it just sent me *four* confirmation e-mails, so I imagine that
> the twit's been wondering why he isn't getting any of his Fedora list
> e-mails, and has tried resubscribing multiple times.
> 
> James (editing his .procmailrc)
> 

It seems to be even stupider than this.  If you don't respond to the 
uol.com.br bounce, it re-sends it every 2 hours.  This is some horribly 
broken stupidity for a lage ISP.  I wonder of our IS folks would mind 
just blacklisting the entire domain at the SMTP level...

Warren Togami
wtogami at redhat.com




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