List spam

[Dotan Cohen]

On 7/23/05, nodata <fedora at nodata.co.uk> wrote:
> On Sat, 2005-07-23 at 13:23 -0400, Roy wrote:
> > On Sat, 2005-07-23 at 17:09 +0100, Paul Howarth wrote:
> > > On Sat, 2005-07-23 at 18:06 +0200, nodata wrote:
> > > > wtogami: Please can you unsubscribe "peter.whalley at uol.com.br" from the
> > > > list. He's spamming everyone.
> > > >
> > > > This has been requested before:
> > > >  https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2005-April/msg00449.html
> > >
> > > And before that too. The problem is: he's not subscribed, at least not
> > > at that address (it must be being forwarded to there from somewhere
> > > else, and nobody knows which address that is).
> > >
> > > Paul.
> > > --
> > > Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org>
> > >
> >
> > Wonder what would happen if these were consistently forwarded to
> > something like SpamCop or something, and the block ended up in a DNSBL
> > somewhere. Figure someone at uol.com.br might find out where the forward
> > connection is and "remedy" the situation?
> >
> > Roy
> >
> 
> Cunning :)
> 
> I've reported the problem to their abuse department, and (bizarrely) to
> cert brazil, as suggested by the "remarks" section of their whois
> record. Let's see if they can help..
> 

I've emailed him, and filled out his silly response-challenge. Within
days of doing that, my spam rate tripled. And I use this account for
mailing lists only. I'm not promising that the events are related, but
it sure does seem that way...

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