On Fri, 16 Feb 2024 12:33:21 -0800, Robert L Mathews via mailop <[email protected]> wrote:
>Interesting, thanks. I find I disagree with the "full stop" part, but it seems >I'm in the minority. Perhaps. I take Google for an example. Fossicking through the logs here, I find... >> cidrsearch *all /nonu /ru=google.cid | search screening > Fri 2024-02-09 05:05:03.170: SMTP screening added 209.85.216.52; sender > triggered a spam honeypot > Fri 2024-02-09 05:06:13.206: SMTP screening added 209.85.214.175; sender > triggered a spam honeypot > Fri 2024-02-09 10:42:24.109: Dynamic screening refused connection to > 192.168.1.2:25 from 209.85.216.52; 1104 minutes remain > Sat 2024-02-10 09:53:13.686: SMTP screening added 209.85.208.169; sender > triggered a spam honeypot > Thu 2024-02-15 13:33:20.263: SMTP screening added 209.85.218.66; sender > triggered a spam honeypot > Thu 2024-02-15 23:11:21.318: SMTP screening added 35.221.19.77; sender > triggered a spam honeypot which tells us that Google has sent (or rather, has enabled to be sent) email to "honeypots", which I designate as "sudden death spamtraps". If you send to one of these, your IP will be dropped into a list which will cause > 530 4.7.0 Connection refused to be the response for 1 day, 3 days, 9 days, or 11 days, 9 hours, 4 minutes. The "refused" connection was for the delivery of a message from an old friend and current business partner. He subsequently forwarded the DSN to me, with the original message appended, I explained the business continuity risks of using "free" email services that apparently have ineffective policy enforcement (not to mention that we are discussing details of a product that will, should it succeed, seriously challenge Google in one of its areas of interest, especially since I know with certainty that their system reads every message you send or receive). If you are sending email to "nadine @ honet.com" or to some guy in Switzerland who signed up at dozens of porno sites using a honet.com user ID well before honet.com was registered (1997), you are NOT a legitimate sender of email. Full stop mdr -- The hits just keep on coming for poor "Nadine". See the sad tale of email lists gone horribly wrong at <http://www.honet.com/Nadine/> F - IW AA #2157 GEVNP _______________________________________________ mailop mailing list [email protected] https://list.mailop.org/listinfo/mailop
