cnn.com is the promotor of the free email service that offers
iname.com as well as three other choices of freebie email addresses
through a remailler called Mail.com (www.Mail.com). So you're
looking at blacklisting CNN and Mail.com.
DNS Admin. contact for iName:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On an ISP trace I got:
"Searches for .no can be run at http://www.ripe.net/db/whois.html "
To answer your subject header question, YES! I read through the
consent agreement at CNN for using CNN's/Mail.com free email
service and it stinks IMO. They can give out any and all registrant info
to whoever they want AFAICS as well as the email addresses - both
legitimate and the Mail.com ones. That, in addition to the headaches
they're obviously going to be to mail list owners, is enough to put me
right off them.
Not much use to you I'm afraid, but IMO I wouldn't accept any sub's
coming from Mail.com (you can find all their choices of .com
addresses at the CNN free email site, probably at their web site too)
without a legitimate, confirmed address from the subscriber or else
filter & delete all of Mail.com's phony .com addresses out of your
incoming mail.
Mally :)
> I'm looking for some good advice for the following type of situation:
>
> 1. A subscriber sets a mail-forward from his current address at ISP
1 to
> a new address at ISP 2.
>
> 2. The subscriber's account at ISP 2 is closed, and address 2
> produces error messages to the list manager. No clue to address 1
> can be easily identified, but ISP 1 can be identified from the
> headers or contents of the error message.
>
> 3. When asked for help identifying the username and address, there
> is absolutely no response from postmaster at ISP 1, and ISP 1 is a
> big ISP that also offers domain names, so it's impossible to
> identify the subscriber address without their help.
>
> I'm just having one of these cases with [EMAIL PROTECTED] I
> get an automated response that my message have been received and
> will be attended to, and then nothing. 4-5 days after my original
> request, I mailed them the following letter:
>
> ---begin-letter
~~~snip~~~
> As far as I'm concerned, iname.com is guilty of spamming if they
> don't do anything with such cases (and I'm sure they are common).
> At the very least I think that this behavior, or non-behavior as
> the case may be, qualifies for blacklisting.
>
> But is there anything I can do with this situation?
>
> And it is getting better, I've just got another case just like
> this one on one of my other lists, and that one is iname.com too.
>
> Thomas Gramstad
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
