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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ############################################################# This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To switch to the INDEX mode, E-mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Send administrative queries to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
