CHOATE, etal: Unsubscribe Rob at nihilist.com

Alex B. Shepardsen abs at squig.org
Fri Feb 16 13:10:56 PST 2001


Hi Jim,

Can't the node operators set up some sort of filter to catch bounce
messages and prevent them from being sent to the list? It seems logical to
block anything from postmaster@, MAILER-DAEMON, etc...

Just a thought...

Alex


On Fri, 16 Feb 2001, Jim Choate wrote:

>
> Hi Peter
>
> He isn't subscribed through SSZ, no nihilist.com or another.com in the
> bunch. If another alias comes to light please pass it along and I'll
> delete it.
>
> As an aside, I usually only let bounces from SSZ subscribers last about a
> week. If it isn't fixed in that time I figure it isn't going to.
>
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> On Fri, 16 Feb 2001, Trei, Peter wrote:
>
> > [Apologies in advance for the multiple posting; this had to get
> >  to everyone -pt]
> >
> > Jim (and other cypherpunk node operators):
> >
> > The spate of "Mail Delivery Failure" messages we've been
> > seeing for the last few days are due to messages sent to a
> > user "rob at nihilist.com", apparently a very temporary (and
> > now dead) web mail address at www.another.com.
> >
> > I've exchanged mail with the postmaster (richard at uk.another.com),
> > and he clearly regards this as Someone Elses Problem, and has no
> > intention of ceasing to send the bounce notices.
> >
> > I strongly advise everyone running a cpunk node to check for, and
> > delete rob at nihilist.com. It's not like he/she/it can't resubscribe if
> > they want to.
> >
> > Sigh.... Yet Another Attack now exists against the cypherpunks
> > S/N ratio.
> >
> > Peter Trei
> >
>





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