Re: [blug] spam OT (RANT)

[dayalan manohar <manohar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

this is happening with a vsnl account.i have written to honorable sysadmin and
thanks i am reading about MAPS RBL  and am grateful for your information.
regards,
dayalan manohar

Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:

> dayalan manohar rearranged electrons thusly:
>
> > A long time ago I made the mistake of visiting indiainfoline.com,  after
> > that I have been plagued by 49 different flavors of spam in the guise of
>
>  me too ... those gentlemen came VERY close to landing in the MAPS RBL
>  blacklist about six months back, courtesy /me (after my father subscribed to
>  one list they ran - and was subscribed to over TWENTY lists).  Unsubscribing
>  didn't work of course ... and the RBL made them promise to improve their list
>  management practices before letting them off the hook for once.  Looks like
>  they haven't listened.
>
> > If there does not seem to be any laws enforced against spam and other
> > such offenses against the weak individual then why should everyone get
> > so belligerent against obscure offenses (in cyberspace) like flag code
> > etc. ?
>
>  You dont need a cyberlaw to have your sysadmin block indiainfoline.com at your
>  mailserver / firewall.
>
>  [back on topic for li]
>
>  Put them in your access.db file
>
>  indiainfoline.com      550 Fsck Off Spammers
>  webserver.indiainfoline.com    550 Fsck Off Spammers
>  iil.indiainfoline.com  550 Fsck Off Spammers
>
>  and run makemap to regenerate the file.
>
>  [also call me at 5594911..16 ext 567 or mail me at suresh@xxxxxxxxxxxx - I'll
>  help you write up an RBL nomination]
>
> --
> Suresh Ramasubramanian + sureshr@xxxxxxx
> Linux is like a Teepee - No Windows, No Gates, Apache Inside