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Re: OT: Subscribed addresses with auto-reply anti-spam systems



On Tue, 3 Jan 2006 13:33, a.list.address@gmail.com wrote:
> On 1/2/06, Andrew Vaughan <ajv-lists@netspace.net.au> wrote:
> > On Tue, 3 Jan 2006 03:25, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > > On Monday 02 January 2006 01:15, a.list.address@gmail.com wrote:
> > > >I just posted a message to the list, and immediately received an
> > > >e-mail from someone's anti-spam system wanting me to confirm that
> > > > I'm a real person.
> >
> > [...]
> >
> > > If that was petsupermarket@uol.br.com, bounce it to every address you
> > > can imagine starting with sales & abuse @uol.br.com.  I bounced about
> > > 3 of them and it stopped, haven't gotten one in about 2 weeks now.
> >
> > 2 weeks ago was right about the time of the debian-bounce-test message,
> > which sent to everybody so that list admins could find the guilty mail
> > address.
> >
> > Presumably that worked, and they were unsubscribed.  I haven't had one
> > since until I posted to -devel today.
>
> Yeah, it's that address, all right.  Must have gotten resubscribed,
> somehow.

Pasted from a post to -devel (who also have the problem)

On Tue, 3 Jan 2006 09:25, Cord Beermann (Debian - Listmaster) wrote:
> Hallo! Du (Linas Zvirblis) hast geschrieben:
> 
> >>BTW, Who da hell is some AntiSpam UOL? Everytime that I send an email to
> >>debian-devel that stupid machine sends me an email. Is there a way to 
> >>block?
> >
> >Yes, the petsupermarket.sspam@uol.com.br is back. You will just have to 
> >block this address on your side until listmaster takes care of this.
> 
> You might have seen the probes we send out in the last year.
> 
> Sadly it didn't work out as hoped, so i (and ${all_subscribers}-1 here)
> would be thankful if anyone can provide more information about 
> petsupermarket (you don't have to point out the website, i already
> tried to contact all address i could find there).
> 
> Someone who is subscribed to d-devel forwards the mails to
> petsupermarket. petsupermarket itself is not subscribed to any of our
> mailinglists.
> 
> If you have seen those c-r-responses outside of the debian-lists, or
> in the last days on other lists than debian-devel, then this
> information is maybe helpful to identify the address.
> 
> We already put many hours in trying to identify this annoying member,
> and this really sucks, as this time is lost for other activities or
> enhancements we could do inside or outside of the Project.
> 
> Cord, wearing his black listmaster-hat and carrying a large
>         flamethrower.





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