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.