Re: MAILING LOOP NOTIFICATION -- PLEASE ACT IMMEDIATELY

[Catherine Hampton <http://www.hrweb.org/~ariel>]

:>  Good!  It wasn't your fault -- this was a combination of me failing to
put a line of code that looks for this, and the spammers setting up their
machines to issue bounce notices to bounce notices. :/  I'll have it posted
later this evneing, and will notify you.


Catherine

At 09:56 PM 8/22/1999 +0000, Robert wrote:
> > From: Catherine Hampton <http://www.hrweb.org/~ariel>
> > Date: Sun  Aug 22, 10:12am
> >
> > Postmaster at Cyberpass.net -- could you please set your copy of the Spam
> > Bouncer to SILENT immediately!  It looks like the people at bayoucom.net
> > have started bouncing email without proper headers, and as a result Digex
> > is getting copies of all your bounce messages. :(
> > 
> >   Hostmaster at infonex.net -- could you block outgoing mail from this 
> >   account to bayoucom.net until this is taken care of?   A Procmail spam 
> >   filter used by a user at cyberpass.net is responding to bounced notices 
> >   from a spammer, causing a mailing loop.   
> > 
> > Jay -- I'm sorry about this.  Your customers at bayoucom.net have
> > apparently turned off their Internic contact email address and are
bouncing
> > bounced messages sent to it.  (They aren't the first spammers not to be
> > able to run a mail server. :( )  The spam bouncer should not be responding
> > to this in 
> > any event, though, and I think I must have broken something during the
last
> > update.  
> > 
> > I will update the Spam Bouncer today and fix the problem.  That won't fix
> > the problem entirely, and if I were you, I'd temporarily route stuff from
> > cyberpass.net to /dev/null.  I can't make my users upgrade, and I don't
> > know who  this user is or whether he will update quickly.  (I think
> > "http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert" is a fake address, although I'm trying to send this
> > to it.)
>
>I am a real address.  I will set SPAMREPLY to SILENT immediately so this
>is stopped.
>
>I'm sorry that this has happened.  Could e-mail me when you've updated
>SpamBouncer?  Thanks.