uol.com.br is now banned from this list

Wong Kwok-hon kwokhon at gmail.com
Fri Nov 18 04:53:10 UTC 2005


On 11/17/05, Warren Togami <wtogami at redhat.com> wrote:
> James Wilkinson wrote:
> > Warren Togami wrote:
> >
> >>Effective immediately I am not allowing any @uol.com.br subscriptions to
> >>fedora-list.  It seems that people who post to the list are getting
> >>spammed from uol.com.br.  This is not the first time this has happened.
> >
> >
> > Note that there is still a petsupermarket at uol.com.br subscribed to the
> > list (maybe under a different address) and sending "confirmation"
> > e-mails.
> >
> > Actually, it just sent me *four* confirmation e-mails, so I imagine that
> > the twit's been wondering why he isn't getting any of his Fedora list
> > e-mails, and has tried resubscribing multiple times.
> >
> > James (editing his .procmailrc)
> >
>
> It seems to be even stupider than this.  If you don't respond to the
> uol.com.br bounce, it re-sends it every 2 hours.  This is some horribly
> broken stupidity for a lage ISP.  I wonder of our IS folks would mind
> just blacklisting the entire domain at the SMTP level...
>

But I found that the .br site sending me email for 4 hours with 15mins interval

Wong Kwok Hon




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