Chris Brenton wrote:
Greets again all,
I noticed something kind of interesting when I made my last post to NANOG. I can understand people wanting to do spam checking, but IMHO this is a bit excessive and inconsiderate.
I'm guessing njabl.org is doing this to everyone who posts to the list, so I thought others might want to know about it in case they have not noticed it in their own logs. BTW, if you are curious about the "spammers_waste_oxygen" portion, that was grabbed off my SMTP banner.
Yep, and see below.
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Dec 22 08:21:50 mailgate sendmail[492]: hBMDLnHS000492: before-reporting-as-abuse-please-see-www.njabl.org [209.208.0.15] did not issue MAIL/EXPN/VRFY/ETRN during connection to MTA Dec 22 08:21:50 mailgate sendmail[495]: hBMDLoHS000495: ruleset=check_rcpt, arg1=<relaytest@rr.njabl.org>, relay=rt.njabl.org [209.208.0.15], reject=550 5.7.1 <relaytest@rr.njabl.org>... Relaying
Um, welcome to the world of spam nazis. I hate spammers. I loathe and despise them. I hate njabl even more. The last time I called their ISP to complain, I was assured that I must have done something to deserve the aggressive testing. 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 suppose the last post to nanog did it). If they were just picking on the machine I posted from, it'd annoy me, but I'd get over it. Why they feel the need to abuse machines that I've NEVER sent email from, to anywhere, is beyond me. Sure, I recognize that I'm in a block frequented by clueless wonders (i.e. DSL), but it isn't dynamic, I've had it for a while now, and it's never been implicated during the time I've had it. In addition, I think that a post to nanog should not get such treatment. Isn't it bad enough that posting to the Full Disclosure mailing list has added to my spam level by a thousand percent? Sigh. -- Open source should be about giving away things voluntarily. When you force someone to give you something, it's no longer giving, it's stealing. Persons of leisurely moral growth often confuse giving with taking. -- Larry Wall