Re: MAILING LOOP NOTIFICATION -- PLEASE ACT IMMEDIATELY

[http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert (Robert)]

 > 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.