On Wed, 25 Jun 1997 21:57:53 -0400, Michael Stone
<mstone(_at_)itri(_dot_)loyola(_dot_)edu> wrote on Procmail-L:
Quoting Timothy Luoma (luomat(_at_)peak(_dot_)org):
I have received 10 copies of this bounce today. (see below)
I sent ONE message to this person (actually it went through the procmail
mailing list).
I wondered about this myself. In addition to the message you got, I got
this one also:
Me, having been rather active on the list lately, have gotten scores
of those foxcomm bounces. I wrote to their postmaster but haven't
received any reply yet. Perhaps it would be time to go upstream if the
problem persists.
----- Transcript of session follows -----
... while talking to mxpool01.netaddress.usa.net.:
RCPT To:<rquayle(_at_)usa(_dot_)net>
<<< 551 <rquayle(_at_)usa(_dot_)net>... User cancelled for spamming
550 <rquayle(_at_)usa(_dot_)net>... User unknown
I wonder if this is one of the people that's been spamming the list?
Not exremely likely. I would guess the list's address somehow got on
one of those lists the pro spammers sell to newbie spammers. (That's
how there can be money in a rotten business idea: when you find out
your idea doesn't work, you can make money off it by selling it to the
suckers that are born every minute. Sigh.)
Any chace this bozo can be taken off? And, why do people who post to
the list get error messages from the underliverables? Other lists I'm
on don't have this problem.
It's an incorrect setup at foxcomm's end. I've been getting this kind
of bounces from other sites occasionally but they usually stop after
you complain about their configuration problem.
To try to get back on-topic, I think we have finally found a case
where automatically bouncing back their bounces would be an
+excellent+ use for Procmail ...
If I get a bounce on this one again, I'll forward it to the list owner
and various foxcomm admins and ask them to do something about this.
(Somebody might already have.)
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