Just yesterday, UUNet released a statement on it's anti-spam policy, which included: UUNET's anti-spamming policy includes: - limiting the length of email recipient lists; - blacklisting mail sent from known spamming locations or organizations; - maintaining a mailbox (abuse@uu.net) which allows victims to report spam incidents; Imagine my surprise when I bounced some newly received spam to abuse@uu.net and received the following response: ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors ----- <abuse@uu.net> ----- Transcript of session follows ----- ... while talking to mail.uu.net.:
RCPT To:<abuse@uu.net> <<< 550 <abuse@uu.net>... User unknown 550 <abuse@uu.net>... User unknown
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