Apologies. I interpreted your use of the word "fake" to imply the domain didn't really exist. In that case, I would have not expected a website to be up, nor an email to succeed (even with delays).
S On Mon, Dec 18, 2017 at 5:12 AM, Jon Ribbens <jon+use...@unequivocal.eu> wrote: > On 2017-12-17, Skip Montanaro <skip.montan...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> I've emailed the administrator of bbs.geek.nz, maybe he >>>> will be able to stop it. >>> >>> Thanks, Greg. We're actually blocking via that and related headers at >>> the gateway, which is why the mailing list is no longer seeing the >>> duplicates. I'm not sure any of us thought to email the news server >>> admin, though! >> >> I did; the address is fake. >> >> Worked for me. From the URL http://news.bbs.geek.nz/ > ... >> I just sent a note to that email address. No bounce yet. > > "No bounce" is not the same as "worked". You'll get a bounce message > when the mail server at your end gives up some time several days in > the future. Depending on how your mail server is configured, you > may get a "delayed" warning some time before that. > -- > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
