Re: off-topic: SPAM

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- --On Thursday, April 24, 2008 18:41:09 -0400 Gregory Stark
<stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> wrote:

> "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org> writes:
>
>> 'k, just checked and yes, we have blocked one Brazil domain in the past
>> because of this issue:
>>
>> subscribe
>> deny, reason="uol.com.br requires non-spam confirmation .. "
>> /@uol.com.br/i || /Moniquechristien(at)cs(dot)com/i
>>
>> So we could add similar ... but, the question comes back to if they have a
>> spam confirmation required, how is email getting to them in order to
>> subscribe them in the first place? The only way I can think of is that this
>> is a feature that has been added *since* they registered ...
>
> What does uol.com.br have to do with infotecnica.com.br? Are you sure this
> wasn't a similar but unrelated case?

Related only in so far as we have, in the past, banned a domain due to the
'spam confirmation emails' issue ...

> Another possible answer to the question is that someone was frustrated by the
> ban and subscribed at a different address then forwarded the mail.

That's kind of what I'm wondering, which makes it even harder to track down ...

But, as I've said, if someone wants to write a good, well worded email, I have
no problem with doing a quick for loop to send out one message per user, maybe
with a counter in the subject line, and see what bounces back for those .br
addresses *shrug*

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