NANOG List Server on several BlockLists

Tue Jul 26 22:10:23 UTC 2005

On Tue, 2005-07-26 at 18:00 -0400, Jim Popovitch wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-07-26 at 16:49 -0500, John Palmer wrote:
> > FYI: The IP address of the mail server that sends out NANOG list
> > messages
> > (198.108.1.26) is once again on most of the major RBLs. 
> 
> I only see it on one listing and that is for dnsbl.sorbs.net.
> 
> http://www.completewhois.com/cgi-bin/rbl_lookup.cgi?query=198.108.1.26
> 
> According to sorbs, the record was created Jul-26 02:31:29 2005 and
> spamtrap trigger email was... 
> 
>    Received: from trapdoor.merit.edu (trapdoor.merit.edu [198.108.1.26])
>     by desperado.sorbs.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id DEF0111428 for
>     <[email]>; Sat, 18 Jun 2005 14:55:42 +1000 (EST)
> 
> 
> -Jim P.

And of course for my well-intended effort I get the following terse
auto-reply declaring that I am a low life with bad intentions and a bad
image.  Wait a minute, I don't have free-email from Yahoo!, I pay for
it. ;-)

-Jim P.

On Tue, 2005-07-26 at 18:51 -0400, John Palmer (NANOG Acct) wrote:
> Hi. This is the TMDA program at adns.net.
> I'm afraid I wasn't able to deliver your message to the following
> addresses.
> This is a permanent error; I've given up. Sorry it didn't work out.
> This is probably because this is an  internal account that no one is 
> supposed to be sending mail to. If you are  sending it mail, you are
> probably a low-life, bottom feeding scum sucking spammer who will
> burn in hell. NO addresses at this domain EVER want to hear from you.
> 
> If your account is at YAHOO.COM or one of the other "free" services,
> we are rejecting your mail because most all of the people using
> these services are spammers or most spammers forge non-existent 
> addresses with these services as their return address. If you 
> have one of these accounts, you should realize that a large percentage
> of the internet will reject your mail because free services attract
> low-lifes that usually have bad intentions and ISP engineers know
> this and reject such mail. You should upgrade your image on the
> internet by paying for a real e-mail account. Sorry, but thats just
> reality. 