On Sun, Feb 25, 2001 at 11:29:34PM -0500, Rich Salz wrote:
> I got email from webmaster at mailtag. I think they fixed their problem,
> but I can't quite understand the following direct quote:
> We shut off our responder...however; it is going back on now...so
> hopefully all your mailing list stuff is finished.
> They also said they are not going to be nice any longer. After all,
> they "explained," it is not their mailing list sending spam, but that
> it is the fault of, I think they believe, the host of the openssl-users
> mailing list. They've been doing autoresponses for three years, and
> have never had a problem before, so "do not coming whining to us" if it
> happens again.
Excellent. This is most wonderful. Every time I need to deal
with another brain damaged autoresponder, I have to spend TOO much time
(>10ms) locating another one to tie them into an E-Mail food fight. If
they have turned their autoresponder back on and are insisting that they
are right, I can note them down as a live exploitable reflector for the
next time I need one!
Something useful actually came out of that mess! How nice... ;-)
They can provide a useful future service for us to annoy others with broken
responders. If they are on a fat enough pipe, it might even slow down
the other system.
> They were rudely accused of many things throughout this afternoon, and
> are blocking any emails from "your networks". I quoted that because it's
> not clear who the "your" is, since the Cc'd winstar, my IP provider.
> They did suggest that if my sys admins wish to email us, they may do so from
> most "free" email services. Hmm.. words to ponder.
Yes... Many things to ponder. Like how many others will note
that they are running an exploitable service and how might it be exploited.
Maybe we'll get to read about them on BugTraq. :-)
> FYI.
> /r$
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