On Sat, 28 Oct 2000, John Young wrote:
Mail to mueller@bendnet.com bounced. Rather a bounce message was returned from bendnet.com, and surely cloaks delivery of the message.
I tried @bend.com. (bendnet.com is rewritten to bend.com when accessed via http). abs@suffy:/home/abs$ telnet mail.bend.com 25 Trying 199.2.205.69... Connected to mail.bend.com. Escape character is '^]'. 220 X1 NT-ESMTP Server mail.bend.com (IMail 6.04 64477-1) expn mueller 550 list not found vrfy mueller 252 Cannot VRFY user quit 221 Goodbye Connection closed by foreign host. abs@suffy:/home/abs$ mueller doesn't exist as one of the webpages on http://www.bend.com/bendnet/users.php either.
And the cc to dan@istac.gov would not even leave this mailer. So it seemed. But the window glass shivered.
What's the whois server for .gov? I could have sworn it was whois.nic.gov... but that appears to be nonexistant at the moment.
Spookery is awesome.
Isn't it?