uol.com.br is now banned from this list

[Gene Heskett]

On Thursday 17 November 2005 11:26, Craig White wrote:
>On Thu, 2005-11-17 at 10:14 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
>> On Thursday 17 November 2005 09:58, Craig White wrote:
>> >On Thu, 2005-11-17 at 03:26 -0500, Warren Togami wrote:
>> >> Hmm, I forcefully unsubscribed everyone with a @uol.com.br
>> >> address, but I am still receiving those damned petsupermarket
>> >> bounces immediately upon sending a message to the list.
>> >>
>> >> uol.com.br has been a problem here for months.  This is insane.
>> >
>> >----
>> >I suppose the way to definitively solve this issue is to create an
>> > smtp daemon that tarpits connections from uol.com.br and distribute
>> > it to enough fedora list users that would bring their smtp servers
>> > to it's knees within minutes.
>> >
>> >Craig
>>
>> Its not just the rh lists, SA and debian is fussing about them too.
>> Apparently vz is filtering them as I'm not seeing them, but the
>> tarpit idea sounds like a pro-active winner to me.  Put them out of
>> business till they get a new business plan.  I don't have a problem
>> with that, not that my opinion is worth any more than you paid for
>> it...
>
>---
>my opinion isn't worth more than yours.
>
>SA list was instigated by JoAnne doing her thing.
>
>If 50 Fedora users had servers that could tarpit uol.com.br - they
> would clearly get the message and fix it as it would tie up their SMTP
> servers big time. My email address does fetchmail from ISP so I can't
> do that.
>
>Craig
>
I'm in the same boat, different seat Craig.  Fetchmail hits vz every 10
minutes or so.

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