Anybody else been getting spam from Webnames.ca? I thought these folks represented the registrar portion of what was at UBC ages ago, but now I'm not so sure. (About the representation, that is. John Demco would never stoop to this crap.)
Somehow, [EMAIL PROTECTED] and a number of "tagged" addresses that exist nowhere except in WHOIS on OpenSRS-registered .ca domains have started getting a "newsletter" from these guys. The email contains information about "things" going on with CIRA and relating to the .ca name space, but it also has info about their registration and hosting services, along with advertisements for other companies that presumably pay Webnames.ca to advertise to my customers. I certainly never subscribed [EMAIL PROTECTED] to this list, and the tagged addresses aren't even known by my customers (most of whom wouldn't even know how to *find* their whois record, let alone send email from an address not already set up in their MUA). Alarmingly, the headers contain: | Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Received: from ns.cdnnet.ca ([EMAIL PROTECTED] [192.73.5.5]) | by haggis.it.ca (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h1K7axfH021700 | for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Thu, 20 Feb 2003 02:37:00 -0500 (EST) | (envelope-from [EMAIL PROTECTED]) | Received: (from ean@localhost) | by ns.cdnnet.ca (8.9.3/8.9.3) id WAA27258 | for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Wed, 19 Feb 2003 22:57:13 -0800 (PST) | Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 22:57:13 -0800 (PST) | Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | From: "Webnames.ca" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | MIME-Version: 1.0 | To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Subject: Webnames.ca February 2003 Newsletter I received a couple of these last month as well, but never got around to looking in to it. (Spam spam spam, and more spam.) Any thoughts? Should I just block inbound mail from webnames.ca, or has the world finally devolved to the point where I add 192.73.5.0/24 to a local blacklist? -- Paul Chvostek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Operations / Abuse / Whatever it.canada, hosting and development http://www.it.ca/
