cnn.com is the promotor of the free email service that offers
iname.com as well as three other choices of freebie email addresses
through a remailler called Mail.com (www.Mail.com). So you're
looking at blacklisting CNN and Mail.com.
DNS Admin. contact for iName:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On an ISP trace I got:
"Searches for .no can be run at http://www.ripe.net/db/whois.html "
To answer your subject header question, YES! I read through the
consent agreement at CNN for using CNN's/Mail.com free email
service and it stinks IMO. They can give out any and all registrant
info to whoever they want AFAICS as well as the email addresses -
both legitimate and the Mail.com ones. That, in addition to the
headaches they're obviously going to be to mail list owners, is enough
to put me right off them.
Not much use to you I'm afraid, but IMO I wouldn't accept any sub's
coming from Mail.com (you can find all their choices of .com
addresses at the CNN free email site, probably at their web site too)
without a legitimate, confirmed address from the subscriber or else
filter & delete all of Mail.com's phony .com addresses out of your
incoming mail.
Mally :)
> I'm looking for some good advice for the following type of situation:
>
> 1. A subscriber sets a mail-forward from his current address at ISP 1 to a
> new address at ISP 2.
>
> 2. The subscriber's account at ISP 2 is closed, and address 2
> produces error messages to the list manager. No clue to address 1
> can be easily identified, but ISP 1 can be identified from the
> headers or contents of the error message.
>
> 3. When asked for help identifying the username and address, there
> is absolutely no response from postmaster at ISP 1, and ISP 1 is a
> big ISP that also offers domain names, so it's impossible to
> identify the subscriber address without their help.
>
> I'm just having one of these cases with [EMAIL PROTECTED] I
> get an automated response that my message have been received and
> will be attended to, and then nothing. 4-5 days after my original
> request, I mailed them the following letter:
>
> ---begin-letter
>
> Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1999 18:52:16 +0200
> From: Thomas Gramstad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Notification of forwarded error messages.
>
> I have received no answer to my request, copyed below. Meanwhile,
> I continue to receive error messages. Since it is your (now
> defunct) user that is causing these error messages, it is your
> responsibility to help stop these error messages by providing
> the information that I asked for. I will not spend any more time
> writing more requests to you. Instead, I will simply forward all
> error messages I receive to you, until I get the infomation I need
> to stop them. This message, therefore, is a notification to you
> that you will receive such error messages, until that time.
>
> Thomas Gramstad
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> ---------------
>
> Date: Sat, 10 Apr 1999 01:55:07 +0200
> From: Thomas Gramstad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Request for address information
> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> Hello,
>
> I need to know which iname address is forwarding to the address
> [EMAIL PROTECTED], so that I can remove the iname address from my
> mailing list. The address [EMAIL PROTECTED] no longer works and
> generates error messages.
>
> Regards,
>
> Thomas Gramstad
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> ---------------
>
> Return-Path: <>
> Received: from rmx07.globecomm.net (rmx07.iname.net [165.251.8.75])
> by ifi.uio.no (8.8.8/8.8.7/ifi0.2) with ESMTP id BAA09468
> for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Sat, 10 Apr 1999 01:47:41 +0200 (MET DST)
> Received: from localhost by rmx07.globecomm.net (8.9.1/8.8.0) with
> internal id TAA16150 Date: Fri, 9 Apr 1999 19:47:11 -0400 (EDT) From: Mail
> Delivery Subsystem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Message-Id:
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/report;
> report-type�livery-status;
> boundary="TAA16150.923701631/rmx07.globecomm.net"
> Subject: Returned mail: User unknown
> Auto-Submitted: auto-generated (failure)
>
> This is a MIME-encapsulated message
>
> --TAA16150.923701631/rmx07.globecomm.net
>
> The original message was received at Fri, 9 Apr 1999 19:47:09 -0400 (EDT)
> from lmtp08.iname.net [165.251.8.81]
>
> **
> This is an automatic message to inform you that your email was not
> forwarded through iName's server.
>
> The iName email address that you tried to send mail to may not be active
