In the immortal words of Jenni Benji Baier ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
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> Someone set up an iname/mail.com account and has it forwarded to the list
> address. This acct has been subscribed to many commercial mailing lists
> as well... I'm not sure if this was intentional or if it was just a
> co-incidence (its the kind of address that some people might use as a
> "dummy" address if don't really want to disclose their email but the feild
> is required.) Since the list only posts messages from subscribers, these
> junkmails don't get distributed, but they do bounce and create errors.
Ack, that's annoying. If you give me the name of the list, I can track
down the culprit account.
> While it is true that aliasing issues would exist regardless of the
> free/anonymous services, these third party alias providers make the task
> of tracking down abusers that much more difficult. Privacy issues prevent
> the alias providers from disclosing useful information, and while they may
> be responsive as far as shutting down an account, that is of little
> consolation when the offending party can simply register yet another alias
> and start over. I would like to see the alias provider to pass my
> complaint on to the offender's ISP (whomever is responsible for the IP
> address that the offender was using when he registered and/or made changes
> to the alias account), but I somehow doubt that will happen.
Well, we've found that dealing with the downstream ISPs that our
users come from to be... of debatable utility. :/ We can, however,
block IP ranges from signing up accounts, and have done so in the
case of repeat offenders. Usually they eventually give up and go
pester somebody else.
-n
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