On 2013-11-21, Greg Troxel <[email protected]> wrote: > From: E-Mail Sent to this address will be added to the BlackLists > <[email protected]> > > I might have sent this by private mail, but the sender is both stating > they will ignore replies and being anonymous. > > Two comments: > > 1) I think it's impolite to threaten people with blacklisting by > replying to a message in the conventional way. it's not reasonable to > push work onto strangers, even if one is being helpful rather than > asking for help.
One approach to handling these messages is to just ignore them. > 2) Most mailng lists require mail to come from a subscriber for spam > filtering. So this sort of stance seems irregular. Were I running the > mailinglist, I wouldn't approve mail with a non-functional sender > address. This individual is not a mailing-list subscriber. He is posting to the comp.protocols.time.ntp Usenet newsgroup via the Eternal September news provider. You're seeing his articles on the mailing list via our gateway. A sample article from this poster may be viewed at https://groups.google.com/forum/#!original/comp.protocols.time.ntp/mBdwuMjcxFw/jEGu7KKml84J All of this poster's articles contains tracking information headers which may be used to file a complaint with his news provider. e.g. (from the article linked above) Injection-Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2013 06:00:44 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx05.eternal-september.org; posting-host="97d561cb9e1eed1630fcfd3dd65418a6"; logging-data="7864"; mail-complaints-to="[email protected]"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/DgdtzFyqjVgYuudyBjPMPKQgj+ns4L68=" Anyone who wishes to contact this poster might find the information at http://www.anitech-systems.com/ or the output of 'whois anitech-systems' to be helpful. -- Steve Kostecke <[email protected]> NTP Public Services Project - http://support.ntp.org/ _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/questions
