[ On Fri, August 8, 1997 at 02:25:55 (-0400), Christopher Masto wrote: ]
Subject: Re: spam relaying by the big boys
... while talking to mrin80.mail.aol.com.:
RCPT To:<abuse@aol.com> <<< 552 abuse mailbox full 554 <abuse@aol.com>... Service unavailable
Operational issue: how to not look so foolish.. :-)
Yeah. I think I've got copies of bounces from postmaster and abuse mailboxes at all the big players who run systems that offer that "mailbox full" feature.... I find it hard to believe that a 24x7 NOC could ever get into this situation unless they've got a mail bomber right on their backbone and they can't cut him off any other way. These big guys do all have 24x7 staffed NOCs and their staff do constantly monitor ops-related mailboxes such as 'postmaster', don't they? If not, why not? -- Greg A. Woods +1 416 443-1734 VE3TCP <gwoods@acm.org> <robohack!woods> Planix, Inc. <woods@planix.com>; Secrets of the Weird <woods@weird.com>