On 8 Jan 2002, Dean Pemberton wrote:
I was just making the point that concentrating on Open Relays is not going to be much use for very much longer.
Maybe not, but spammers certainly are certainly concentrating on open relays. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2002-01-04 17:13:34 refused relay (host) to <john(a)4-vendor.com> from <shmad123(a)4berry.com> H=(mail.4berry.com) [65.164.43.92] (failed to find host name from IP address) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2002-01-05 06:49:12 refused relay (host) to <emailmachine(a)aol.com> from <jamiejams(a)hotmail.com> H=(bellsouth.net) [204.94.148.55] (failed to find host name from IP address) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2002-01-05 06:49:12 refused relay (host) to <willnotbescrewed(a)yahoo.com> from <jamiejams(a)hotmail.com> H=(bellsouth.net) [204.94.148.55] (failed to find host name from IP address) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2002-01-05 19:42:14 refused relay (host) to <testthissever(a)yahoo.com> from <Catchuptoday(a)gnwmail.com> H=12-230-200-45.client.attbi.com (earthlink.com) [12.230.200.45] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2002-01-06 02:21:03 refused relay (host) to <mygirl21040(a)yahoo.com> from <fdgfdsh(a)aol.com> H=ip132.47.blaz.blazenet.net (mx2.mail.yahoo.com) [208.165.47.132] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The first entry belongs to "eleads2succes.com" who have a /24 on Sprint. The second is Empire Towers/Poplaunch, who also have a /24 on sprint, plus another one on Qwest. They've been hammering my MTA plus the ones at IDG hard... no action taken by Sprint or Qwest to stop them; Dave Null must work their abuse desks. -- Juha Take off every sig! - To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog