Re: [cobalt-users] XBL listing (was: New FormMail script)

[Grant Stern <grantstern@xxxxxxx>]

On 5/2/02 11:00 AM, "cobalt-users-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"
<cobalt-users-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> on 5-1-02 2:01 PM, Jeff Lasman at jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx was reported to have
> made a statement that said this:
> 
>> flash22@xxxxxxx wrote:
>> 
>>> osirusoft's site has a tool to query almost all of the known lists
>>> 
>>> http://relays.osirusoft.com/cgi-bin/rbcheck.cgi
>> 
>> ONLY by selwerd.cx/xbl, and the
>> reason given is that UU.NET is full of spammers.  They appear to list
>> everything owned by UUNET no matter who it's delegated to.
>> 
>> So I guess they key is to not use UUNET.
>> 
>> I think that's a pretty broad brush.
> 
> Jeff and the over-extreme,
> I would have to agree Jeff. Seems a little extreme. We received an email
> from someone claiming one of my clients had spammed them. He stated he was
> going to turn us in to a blacklist. I noticed the trace he did, which he
> sent and the headers went to some place in California, it wasn't even close
> to being us or one of my clients. I had to exchange 5 emails to get him to
> realize he was blaming the wrong people. I guess my point is, some of these
> list, and accusers are very shoot first and maybe ask questions later. If I
> had not responded to this other guy, or been out and my staff didn't know
> how or have auth. To handle, I may have been on a list, and I wasn't even
> the culprit.
> --
> Thank you,
> David E Thurman

If I had to take a guess, and the trace doesn't match the headers, my first
culprit would be http://www.jps.at/java/tools/mailserver.html .  A little
Java mail server based on J2ee. Not all ISPs have closed their open relays,
and this thing is just a spamerator.  What ISP uses a Java mailserver
instead of sendmail??????
gs
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