Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 19 Oct 2000 14:40:36 -0600 | From | "Jeff V. Merkey" <> | Subject | Re: [ADMIN] some list related topics .. |
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Matt,
A legal perspective.
It is a Felony Federal) in the United States to divert or re-route emails on the internet, esspecially across interstate lines. It's also a Felony (Federal) to misuse and email address to disrupt interstate or international commerce.
I would suggest calling the FBI office in your area and file a formal complaint. You can be assured they will put anyone doing this in jail (and walk in and seize all their computer equipment).
Jeff
Matti Aarnio wrote: > > We (abuse@vger.kernel.org -> me & DaveM) got just reports that > somebody is diverting incoming email to some sort of auto-responding > ticket system. > > The thing does not carry original message "Received:" headers in replies, > and is reporting invalid URL. > > Independent of that, people with supposedly working addresses > are sometimes bouncing: > > 1) because their backup MXes don't like the domain they have > (configuration problem somewhere, you can choose in between > the DNS data writer, and the backup MX admin) > > 2) that ISP's system is for some reason loosing track of > part of their user database. > > Couple days ago SGI.COM had apparently lost its external > system primary alias file for a few hours... I have seen > similar blunders here and there, cisco.com had blunder > that some months ago too. -- things vary, but usually > we refrain from deleting recipients if "a bit too many" > are bouncing from some big site... > > 3) some ISP systems yield 500 series errors with text: > "system is temporarily busy" > or something of that effect. Now THAT is really offensive > stupidity by the ISP software folks... > > For the subset 1 above, I am preparing to begin to run regularly > (weekly very least, daily possibly) scanner which tries interactive > testing of recipients address at all of user's domain's MX servers, > and if any of the MX systems for user's domain gives a bad > response for subscriber's address, that user gets the log report > and some pointers on what to do. > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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