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- Hi.
-
- Yes, MailStrip has returned to haunt everyone on the mailing list again.
- I've immediately sent the following email to postmaster@pipex.net and
- postmaster@argonet.co.uk to kick them into action...
-
- Death to Mailstrip! Death to Mailstrip! Death to Mailstrip! Death to Mailstrip!
- Death to Mailstrip! Death to Mailstrip! Death to Mailstrip! Death to Mailstrip!
-
- I suggest that if anyone else is getting these again to do the same - mail a copy
- of *all* the mailstrip emails to the above addresses. If enough people do this,
- then they will have to do something about it!
-
- > For some time now, we appear to have someone who insists on using a piece
- > of BROKEN, non-RFC conforming mail software, and is potentially annoying
- > around 300 users in various countries/companies.
- >
- > Please do your best to solve this problem, or else I will be forced to block
- > *all* emails from argonet.co.uk and from pipex.net, which is obviously not
- > desirable.
- >
- > Here are the emails that I received today.
- >
- > When ever this user logs on to collect his mail, each message that he receives
- > has an automatic reply generated *whether or not* the incoming message requests
- > this. This is potentially dangerious, especially as they appear to be
- > subscribed to a mailing list. The automatic replies have the original
- > *originating* email address as the `From' line, and as such there is no
- > information about the origin of these, other than the fact that they have
- > come from the IP address 193.130.250.196.
- >
- > If this continues, then I shall be forced to take radical action (eg, automatic
- > bouncing of this emails to the above address) until such time EFFECTIVE action
- > is taken.
- >
- > Please take the time to investigate this throughly. I don't care what you do,
- > just *STOP* this emails, and preferably prevent the distribution of such a broken
- > and annoying piece of software.
- >
- > PS. I'm sure that you don't want to have
- > NR_RECIPIENTS * NR_EMAILS_DOWNLOADED_BY_THIS_USER being passed through your
- > systems every time he/she logs on, eating up expensive net bandwidth, server space,
- > and CPU usage.
- >
- > ---- start of mails ----
- > > copies of all emails I received from mailstrip...
- > ---- end of mails ----
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