At 4:54 PM -0700 6/18/02, Mark Strom  imposed structure on a stream 
of electrons, yielding:
>Is this the sort of thing one sees when a spammer probes for an open relay,
>but is repulsed?

Yes, but in this case it's probably not someone who intends to use 
the results for spamming.


>23:24:33 1 SMTP-255(analog.outblaze.com) SPAM? Recipient
>'<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>' rejected: relaying to [202.77.223.35] is not
>allowed
>23:24:34 1 SMTP-256(analog.outblaze.com) SPAM? Recipient
>'<"[EMAIL PROTECTED]">' rejected: user unknown
>23:24:35 1 SMTP-257(analog.outblaze.com) SPAM? Recipient
>'[EMAIL PROTECTED]' rejected: relaying to [202.77.223.35] is not
>allowed

[etc...]

Outblaze is a provider of outsourced email services, largely running 
freemail operations for other companies. Their postmaster is a fairly 
well-known anti-spammer, and Outblaze is the largest mail operation 
publicly known to use the SPEWS DNSBL. This looks like a fairly 
aggressive relay test run, and it looks like they are feeding some 
sort of list (OBSL?) with the relays.


-- 
Bill Cole
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