[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

>On Wed, 4 Jul 2001, Jolly Roger wrote:
>
>> 
>> Take a look at your headers being returned by the bounce message. If
>> you see something like "Received: from big.sportec.es (EHLO
>> correo.sportec.es) (195.75.168.2)", we may be up against the same
>> guys.

I did a quick test big.sportec.es is an Open Relay.

>that same spammer used 3 of the domains we host and and used it as source 
>address. So since early this morning, got close to a thousand bounced
>mails to $random$ :(

Yeah, so they're using several open relays, many in .kr and .tw. Lots of open relays 
(and incompetent/indifferent admins) in .kr, apparently.

>by the looks of it, they used multiple open relays... but not ours ;)

Doesn't matter, we're still the ones that have to handle with bounce messages.

>so now, spammers don't just invent domains, they use your domain...

Yup. I'd still like to have a word with the administrators of those open relays 
though...

JR

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