Re: Dirty spam

[Pollywog <linux-debian@shadypond.com>]

On Friday 20 October 2006 18:22, Johannes Wiedersich wrote:
> Mumia W.. wrote:
> > Taking down the botnet is another way to fight the spam. It doesn't
> >
> > always work as planned:
> >> This message was created automatically by mail delivery software.
> >>
> >> A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more of its
> >> recipients. This is a permanent error. The following address(es) failed:
> >>
> >>   abuse@qixhosting.net
> >>     SMTP error from remote mailer after RCPT TO:<abuse@qixhosting.net>:
> >>     host mail.qixhosting.net [66.102.41.26]: 550 5.7.1
> >> <abuse@qixhosting.net>... Relaying denied
>
> whois qixhosting.net |grep @
>          President President lalitababy@hotmail.com
>          President President lalitababy@hotmail.com
>          President President lalitababy@hotmail.com
>
> According to whois this is the email you might have addressed your
> complaint to. Looks rather fishy. Maybe someone in the US should
> investigate this.

They are apparently located in Canada.

pollywog@slider:~$ whois 66.102.41.26
Dynamic Pipe Inc. DYNAMIC-PIPE-BLK-2 (NET-66-102-32-0-1)
                                  66.102.32.0 - 66.102.47.255
Qix Hosting QIX-BLK-1 (NET-66-102-32-0-2)
                                  66.102.32.0 - 66.102.47.255

It is a known spam operation according to 
http://www.webservertalk.com/archive154-2005-7-1139994.html

I wonder if the list admins could ban the entire IP block from posting to the 
Debian lists.