[linux-audio-dev] OT: spam

hi *! after getting about 20 spam/day to linux-audio* from a single taiwanese domain, i filed a complaint with their postmaster and abuse addresses. i thought i'd share this laugh with you: -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Returned mail: Service unavailable Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2004 20:23:59 +0800 (CST) From: Mail Delivery Subsystem <MAILER-DAEMON(a)mx144.hinet.net> To: <nettings(a)folkwang-hochschule.de> The original message was received at Sun, 11 Jan 2004 20:23:57 +0800 (CST) from netnews1.hinet.net [168.95.195.29] ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors ----- <fukuei.chung(a)msa.hinet.net> ----- Transcript of session follows ----- mail.local: /var/mail/00/92/fukuei.chung: Disc quota exceeded 554 <fukuei.chung(a)msa.hinet.net>et>... Service unavailable ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ FUCKWITS! THIS IS THE FRIGGIN POSTMASTER ADDRESS! sigh. if taiwan doesn't do something about their email legislation, they will find the entire country in a mail blackhole soon. why is every moron allowed to run an internet server just so, and driving a car takes a license ? ----- Original message follows ----- Return-Path: <nettings(a)folkwang-hochschule.de> Received: from netnews1.hinet.net (netnews1.hinet.net [168.95.195.29]) by mx144.hinet.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA22270; Sun, 11 Jan 2004 20:23:57 +0800 (CST) Received: from kuwiserv.folkwang-hochschule.de (kuwiserv.folkwang-hochschule.de [193.175.156.250]) by netnews1.hinet.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA23347; Sun, 11 Jan 2004 20:23:36 +0800 (CST) Received: from folkwang-hochschule.de (kuwiserv.folkwang-hochschule.de [193.175.156.250]) by kuwiserv.folkwang-hochschule.de (8.11.6/8.11.6/SuSE Linux 0.5) with ESMTP id i0BCLeD04610; Sun, 11 Jan 2004 13:21:41 +0100 Message-ID: <40013FC8.2050502(a)folkwang-hochschule.de> Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2004 13:21:28 +0100 From: Joern Nettingsmeier <nettings(a)folkwang-hochschule.de> User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20031210 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: postmaster(a)hinet.net, abuse(a)hinet.net Subject: please take action against spammers from your domain! Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable to whom this may concern, i'm the mailing list administrator for the linux-audio-* lists=20 (http://linuxaudiodev.org). this is to let you know that your domain has by far been the greatest=20 nuisance in terms of unsolicited email (spam) to our lists over last week= s. the mail has been coming in from bogus addresses of the form [a-z]{3}linu[sx](a)ms[0-9]{2}.hinet.net. below i have included the headers of one spam message for your reference.= since it is putting a significant load on our servers and consumes a lot = of work time, i urgently request that you stop this practice immediately.= sincerely, j=F6rn nettingsmeier -- "I never use EQ, never, never, never. I previously used to use mic positioning but I've even given up on that too." - Jezar on http://www.audiomelody.com Jörn Nettingsmeier Kurfürstenstr 49, 45138 Essen, Germany http://spunk.dnsalias.org (my server) http://www.linuxaudiodev.org (Linux Audio Developers)