On Thursday 19 April 2007, Philip Prindeville wrote:
>Hi.
>
>This isn't so much a technical question as a philosophical one.
>We're tired of dealing with Yahoo! which seems to either
>(a) have the poorest trained "abuse" staff of any large email
>service provider on the planet, or (b) they have a malicious
>corporate culture of flat-out denying any email originated
>from their networks, no matter how compelling the evidence.
>
>I'm out of ideas, so I thought I'd turn to the group.
>
>I recently had a message with the following headers:
>
>Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Received: from smtp105.biz.mail.mud.yahoo.com
> (smtp105.biz.mail.mud.yahoo.com [68.142.200.253]) by
> mail.redfish-solutions.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with SMTP id l2V1kkqG009611 for
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Fri, 30 Mar 2007 19:46:52 -0600
> Received: (qmail 65061 invoked from network); 31 Mar 2007 01:46:46 -0000
> Received: from unknown (HELO localhost)
> ([EMAIL PROTECTED]@4.79.181.240 with plain) by
> smtp105.biz.mail.mud.yahoo.com with SMTP; 31 Mar 2007 01:46:46 -0000
> X-YMail-OSG:
> 4SuIk60VM1mrOGBAKk3UQSIGXvsb4QmL0rwvi97gE9mIpViIsNyNpLnGy2BQbmYSCoUdeywpxW2
>5RWzcK6ECZbX37ayshFDwIXNvRKxXqW3hqhkRMIw- Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2007 01:46:45
> -0400
>From: "Monster.com" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.2627
>Reply-To: "Monster.com" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>X-Priority: 3 (Normal)
>Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>To: Philip Prindeville <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Money-Investment
>Mime-Version: 1.0
>Content-Type: multipart/mixed;boundary="----------"
>
>
>
>If someone can prove to me that this message didn't come from
>Yahoo!, I will eat my shorts.
>
>But until then, my next course of action seems to be blacklisting
>Yahoo!, because I'm tired of their not investigating messages that
>pretty obviously seem to be coming from them.
>
>Any collective wisdom?
>
>-Philip
I tried that in a procmail recipe, hitting about 5 of their server boxes.
Killed traffic for 6 or so of the mailing lists I'm on so I eventually nuked
them.
Solution? Damnifiknow. Suggestions, Kozinsky style mail bombs to yahoo via
uspo, whathaveyou come to mind. In my NSHO, they're bigger jerks than AOL in
their heyday.
--
Cheers, Gene
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do
it.
-- Gandhi
