On Tuesday 06 November 2007 20:21, Jon Lewis wrote:
> The best way to avoid looking like a spammer is to not spam. Anything

I take it, then, that Atlantic.net is not trying to avoid looking like a
spammer? Isn't the ISP that hosts a spammer tainted by the spam as well?

Everyone in my office gets spam from the Hippodrome. None of us have ever
signed up for it. None of us want it. It originates from an Atlantic.net
address. My complaints to the Hippodrome _and_ to Atlantic.net were
completely ignored. I finally (supposedly) got off the list by telephoning
the Hipp, and I blocked them at our server for the rest of our office (so for
all I know, I'm still on the list).

Their spam did not include any contact info for removal from their spam list.

By the way, the address they were spamming me at is one that is only published
on one web page. I never provide it to anyone, so they clearly obtained it by
harvesting addresses from that (UF department) web site, although when I
called them they denied that they do this.

A quick look at our server logs shows that they are still hammering us with
spam, a lot of it to non-existent addresses. And their server won't take "no
such user" as an answer. E.g.

2007-11-04 11:25:29 -0500 H=(server2.Hippodrome) [209.208.9.122]
F=<[log in to unmask]> rejected RCPT <[log in to unmask]>: Previous (cached)
callout verification failure
2007-11-04 12:01:35 -0500 H=(server2.Hippodrome) [209.208.9.122]
F=<[log in to unmask]> rejected RCPT <[log in to unmask]>: Previous (cached)
callout verification failure
2007-11-04 12:38:33 -0500 H=(server2.Hippodrome) [209.208.9.122]
F=<[log in to unmask]> rejected RCPT <[log in to unmask]>: Previous (cached)
callout verification failure
2007-11-04 13:25:30 -0500 H=(server2.Hippodrome) [209.208.9.122]
F=<[log in to unmask]> rejected RCPT <[log in to unmask]>: Previous (cached)
callout verification failure
2007-11-04 13:51:01 -0500 H=(server2.Hippodrome) [209.208.9.122]
F=<[log in to unmask]> rejected RCPT <[log in to unmask]>: Previous (cached)
callout verification failure
2007-11-04 14:38:30 -0500 H=(server2.Hippodrome) [209.208.9.122]
F=<[log in to unmask]> rejected RCPT <[log in to unmask]>: Previous (cached)
callout verification failure

(these are all getting 550 responses from us - yet they keep re-trying)

And like all good spammers, they use a fake server name:
2007-11-02 15:58:30 -0400 no IP address found for host
hippodrome-gsvl-gw-1.atlantic.net (during SMTP connection from
(server2.Hippodrome) [209.208.9.122])


- Bob