Is there a PSI.NET person in the house?
I just got half a hundred of these (and 123 of these last Friday) and all e-mail, to the usual locations, bounces or gets ignored. I am livid, I am pissed, I am *really* wanting to SMURF PSI.NET because they have been a spam-harbor for *years*! PSI.NET should have made it into the RBL a long time ago.
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% I just got half a hundred of these (and 123 of these last Friday) and all % e-mail, to the usual locations, bounces or gets ignored. I am livid, I am % pissed, I am *really* wanting to SMURF PSI.NET because they have been a % spam-harbor for *years*! % % PSI.NET should have made it into the RBL a long time ago. are you sure you meant to post this to nanog@merit.edu, or was this an accident? have a nice day! |o|----------------------------------------------------------------------|o| |o| bryan s. blank (203)-351-1178 voice |o| |o| senior systems analyst (203)-351-1186 fax |o| |o| discovernet, incorporated (800)-209-0223 emerg |o|
At 12:17 PM 3/1/99 -0500, bryan s. blank wrote:
% I just got half a hundred of these (and 123 of these last Friday) and all % e-mail, to the usual locations, bounces or gets ignored. I am livid, I am % pissed, I am *really* wanting to SMURF PSI.NET because they have been a % spam-harbor for *years*! % % PSI.NET should have made it into the RBL a long time ago.
are you sure you meant to post this to nanog@merit.edu, or was this an accident?
Not an accident, I was looking for a PSI.NET contact that wasn't an auto-responder. A PSI.NET customer was mail-bombing my domain with spam. Every user got over 150 copies of this over the week-end. We have more than one user <grin>.
have a nice day!
I'm having a totally bitchin' day <grin> PSI.NET responded that the account was nuked this morning. I guess it worked. Normally, I ignore spam because it takes too much time (read $cash-money$) to do something about it. But, in this case, it was causing a serious load increase on my servers. Also, users are complaining about the download time of their mail clients. Figure 3KB times 150 at 33.6Kbps, that's 13.4 minutes per user, on our dial-up lines. My first 10 calls, this morning, were complaints about this problem. Do I need to explain why I wasn't in a good mood? Also, I've had problems getting PSI to respond in the past, this re-surfaced those old frustrations. I guess they've changed.
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At Monday 12:41 PM 3/1/99 , Roeland M.J. Meyer wrote:
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Accepting mail from *.pub-ip.psi.net considered harmful! - News at 11 They are so ignorant and lame about complaints, I shut off their dialup IP ranges from sending mail at a number of sites I was/am responsible for about 2+ years ago. Judging from their DNS zones being in good order, I can only guess at their silent approval of this. SpamShield <tm> was majorly beta-tested with the help of Porn spammers on their Baltimore,MD dialups, and provided about half the motivation to write it in the first place. Thank you, PSI. -- kai@conti.nu "Just say No" to Spam Kai Schlichting Palo Alto, New York, You name it Sophisticated Technical Peon Kai's SpamShield <tm> is FREE! http://SpamShield.Conti.nu | | LeasedLines-FrameRelay-IPLs-ISDN-PPP-Cisco-Consulting-VoiceFax-Data-Muxes WorldWideWebAnything-Intranets-NetAdmin-UnixAdmin-Security-ReallyHardMath
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