Re: Someone's using my address for spam

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From: Graham Murray
Date: Thu, 09 Nov 2000 06:41

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In demon.service, news1@polka.redowa.co.uk (Tim Willets) writes:

> In fact, as some Demon customers have been knowm to misconfigure their
> MTAs so that they operate as open relays Demon's own mail servers
> have at times appeared in ORBS listings. Would you be happy not to
> receive any mail from any *.demon.* address because one customer got
> their sendmail configuration wrong?

Why should this affect *all* Demon customers? Demon provide fixed IP
addresses, so if a customer inadvertently acts as a relay then only
that customer's IP address should be placed on the blocking lists.

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arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!supernews.google.com!sn-xit-02!supernews.com!isdnet!grolier!dispose.news.demon.net!demon!news.demon.co.uk!demon!barnowl.demon.co.uk!news.gmurray.org.uk!not-for-mail

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<021120000903373203%andy@dance.demon.co.uk> <6766@purr.demon.co.uk> <B627B4789668161576@cara.demon.co.uk> <01c04976$ab8a25a0$0500000a@nick> <slrn90jj01.dk3.news1@polka.redowa.co.uk>

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From: Graham Murray <newspost@gmurray.org.uk>
Newsgroups: uk.comp.sys.mac,demon.service
Subject: Re: Someone's using my address for spam
Date: 09 Nov 2000 06:41:01 +0000
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