Cross-posted .general and .question I received a response from wrld of pwr this am (sent 6:33 am EST) and I wish to publicly thank the Sender and his organization for being forthright, open and above board at this point. Their willingless to take care of the problem is laudible.
It should be stopped for now, here and other groups and inboxes, too. They have redirected all their auto-responders to a particular mailbox of their own. He said they received over 10,000 of them in the short time after the redirect. To use his own words, they are now working "frantically" to figure out how to take care of it. It's the right thing to do, and I'm hoping he's as reliable as he sounds to be. I found him very reasonable and IMO wanting to do the right thing for all the right reasons. I'm not going to give his address here since he contacted me by e-mail but I think it shows at a minimum that they now understand the problem and are working on it. If he wishes to respond here personally, I leave that up to him. But remember, this is one of many groups, probably hundreds, that he's been hitting so individual responses aren't likely to be forthcoming. Based on the stated quantity of 10,000 mails,, this is, as I said previously was possible, likely an intentional spam attack. Someone is banging their autoresponder (most likely) with their address intentionally forged into the mails (spam) being sent. That number is probably still climbing but should start to fall off shortly as the spam run completes. If it doesn't fall off, then they have legal recourse against the spammer/s which I suppose might pay for some of the substantial bandwidth they've spent on keeping this tripe from going out into the rest of the world. Expending bandwidth on non-business activities is one of the most loathsome activies any server admin can have to do. I for one appreciate their actions. They could have just gone merrily along without the redirects and told no one. But the main point again is, they have redirected ALL of them, so for the time being they shouldn't be appearing anywhere. Auto-responders in general are bad news and without extreme security controls, such as helo authentication, etc., will, not might, eventually be accused of spamming. So far the total number of complaints, according to my admittedly brief research, has been small, in the thousands, so compared to their total MX figues, they aren't getting high spam scores yet. By taking care of that now, they won't end up on the block/black lists that make it extremely hard to get off of. Discussion in nanae and similar listing sites are so far peripheral, so ... this stoppage is exactly what they needed to do. I'm sure, if anyone recived further such mails with dates of 5-1 or later, that they would be pleased to have them. Be sure to include the unmunged headers so they can validate your claim. The best way to do that is to Forward As Attachment. So World of Power so far are the white hats, which is great. Let's hope they manage to stay that way. Twayne --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
