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Re: spam from pobox

2004-09-11 12:44:51
On Sat, Sep 11, 2004 at 12:29:52PM -0400, John Keown wrote:
| Received: from ruby.pobox.com (localhost [127.0.0.1])
| by ruby.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C820527D2
| for <sidewin(_at_)ot(_dot_)com>; Sat, 11 Sep 2004 12:09:42 -0400 (EDT)
| Delivered-To: marsu(_at_)pobox(_dot_)com
| Received: from ruby (localhost [127.0.0.1])
| by ruby.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B94682580
| for <marsu(_at_)pobox(_dot_)com(_dot_)07943725(_dot_)001(_dot_)icgmh>; Sat, 
11 Sep 2004 12:09:42 -0400 
| (EDT)

Pobox.com is a forwarding service.  People pay us a
subscription fee to have aliases @pobox.com that forward to
an external address.

marsu(_at_)pobox(_dot_)com is a paid-up pobox account that forwards to
sidewin(_at_)ot(_dot_)com(_dot_)

    20040911-13:37:41 mengwong(_at_)emerald:~/html% acct marsu
    alias:          dewey(_at_)pobox(_dot_)com
    alias:          marsu(_at_)pobox(_dot_)com
    alias:          sidewin(_at_)pobox(_dot_)com
    forward:        sidewin(_at_)ot(_dot_)com
    signup date:        19950912

Pobox offers a number of antispam settings: users have their
choice of DNSBLs, SMTP conformance policies, and country
blacklists.

At 20040820233411 the user configured their antispam
settings at http://www.pobox.com/login/mason/antispam/ to
never filter any spam.  There are a number of settings which
would have blocked the message, but like approximately 10%
of our userbase, they want us to forward all mail, spam or
not, to their external account.  If the user has explicitly
indicated that they want the spam, who are we to disagree?
:)


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