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: > >> > >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> SMTP error from remote mailer after RCPT TO:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> host mail.qixhosting.net [66.102.41.26]: 550 5.7.1 > >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... Relaying denied > > whois qixhosting.net |grep @ > President President [EMAIL PROTECTED] > President President [EMAIL PROTECTED] > President President [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > 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. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ 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. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]