On Mon, 2003-12-22 at 11:04, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote:
Um, welcome to the world of spam nazis.
I've seen returning MX queries and even source address validation, but never anything this excessive up till now. IMHO its hard to tell if they are looking for spam relays to reduce spam, or because they are looking to generate some spam themselves. ;-)
I hate spammers. I loathe and despise them. I hate njabl even more.
Agreed. My spam is _my_ problem and fixing it should not include making it everyone else's problem. Forget whether its legal, its pretty inconsiderate as many environments flag this stuff as malicious so it triggers alerts.
The last time I called their ISP to complain, I was assured that I must have done something to deserve the aggressive testing.
As a follow up, it also looks like they did a pretty aggressive port scan of my system. Not sure how checking Telnet, X-Windows or RADIUS will tell them if I'm a spammer, but what ever.
Well, nope, I didn't, and I don't. They just did it again, and by "it", I mean that they hit every machine in my little netblock
I've tweaked my perimeter to return host-unreachables to all packets originating from their network (rate limited of course). If that stops them from accepting me mail, oh well I'll survive. Thanks for the confirmation, C