OOO broken

[John Summerfield]

Andrew Kelly wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-10-24 at 00:06 -0400, Ric Moore wrote:
>> On Tue, 2007-10-23 at 10:11 +0200, Andrew Kelly wrote:
>>> On Tue, 2007-10-23 at 01:33 -0500, Renich Bon Ciric wrote:
>>>> Does anybody, other than me, suffer from the same problem?
>>> Dunno.
>>>
>>> If your problem is erectile dysfunction, then yes, apparently half the
>>> planet shares your problem. Well, at least according to all the mail I
>>> get.
>> Jeeez Andy! Not you too?? I think my <ahem> "problem" was my yahoo
>> account's fault. All those ads you mentioned. I left that account open
>> for a year or so to attract and soak in just about all the goobers and
>> their spam that exist in the entire world, and I just killed it off
>> yesterday. <cackles> Sweet. 
> 
> I catch a ton of rubbish to an account I pretty much haven't used in
> half a dozen years. And I have to admit, some of the subject lines are
> funny as hell. There are between 200 and 500 in my junk folder every
> morning; I still can't break the habit of scanning for false positives.
> If you let your focal point slide to about 5 inches past your screen so
> that things begin to blur just the tiniest bit, let your mind wander
> (just the tiniest bit), it all begins to read like a surreal comic book.
> 
> I choked on my tea the first time I read that my new penis was waiting
> for me.
> ... a riot.
> 
>> Gmail makes me more "confident" you see. 
> 
> Gmail.
> You know, I think I'm learning that I think gmail really sucks. I've
> never actually used web-based e-mail (and I've never really understood
> why anybody who has an actual internet connection would in the first
> place), so I don't really know what it's enticing feature(s) is/are. But
> I sure can say that I get a ***t-load of spam from gmail accounts, and
> that gmail either does not have an abuse mechanism in place, or simply
> refuses to respond to it's use. 

Bear in mind that the "from:" address is supplied by the user, and can 
be anything at all.

If you look carefully at the received: headers, you can tell whether it 
came via gmail's servers. Note that there typically will not be many 
hops between gmail's servers and yours, and probably you "know" them all.




> Whatever the case, gmail is the new hotmail in my admin life. In fact,
> aol has fallen to 4th place on my personal list of "The Rings of Hell".
> gmail, hotmail, yahoo, aol, in that order.

more like .cn and .ko .ru, .es and .mx don't rate highly here either.

I regularly firewall off great gobs of China: if I see spam or ssh from 
anywhere in China, I block at least the entire /24 network entirely, 
from smpt and ssh.





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John

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