OOO broken <OT>

[Andrew Kelly]

On Thu, 2007-10-25 at 17:24 +0800, John Summerfield wrote:
> Andrew Kelly wrote:
> > On Thu, 2007-10-25 at 00:39 -0400, Ric Moore wrote:
> >> On Wed, 2007-10-24 at 09:54 +0200, Andrew Kelly wrote:
> > 
> > <snip>
> > 
> >>> 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. 
> >>> 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.
> >> Wow, it's worked really well for me. Maybe you don't have something
> >> clicked on in your preferences?? Ric
> > 
> > Ah, sorry, that was a bit unclear on my part. I meant that the mail
> > servers I maintain and the user-base I administer are plagued by the
> > aforementioned. 
> 
> which I assume you to mean is spam which claims to be from 
> someone at gmail.com.
 
A fair assumption.

> I for one have seen little spam that really does come from gmail, it's 
> mostly injected from broadband accounts (as determined by host name) (un 
> usa) or universities in .cn.

As I qualified in earlier mail, the bulk of it all is simply overlooked
by me. But there are times when I have to follow up on specific
instances, and being good at what I do, I am able to correctly identify
the source. I stand by what I've already stated.

Andy