Shorewall users - Aug 2003 - Re: Stop Using relays.osirusoft.com *NOW*! (fwd)

Tom Eastep    \ Shorewall - iptables made easy
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Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2003 22:45:49 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jim Seymour <jseymour@LinxNet.com>
Reply-To: postfix-users@postfix.org
To: postfix-users@postfix.org
Subject: Re: Stop Using relays.osirusoft.com *NOW*!

jseymour@LinxNet.com (Jim Seymour) wrote:
>
> John Capo <jc@irbs.com> wrote:
> >
> [snip]
> >
> > Scuttlebut on NANAE is that Joe was hacked.  I think the problem
> > is solved for now:
> [snip]
>
> Word I have is that scuttlebut is incorrect.  Word I have is that
Joe''s
> done this on-purpose and that he is throwing in the towel.
I just discovered the following, posted to
news.admin.net-abuse.blocklisting:

| Subject: Update on relays.osirusoft.com
| Newsgroups: news.admin.net-abuse.blocklisting
| From: Andy Finkenstadt <kahuna@panix.com>
| Message-ID: <bigprp$ri3$1@reader2.panix.com>
| Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2003 23:50:15 GMT
[snip]
| "Direct from Joe Jared''s mouth, he''s shutting down the
service, that people
| need to stop using it, that he''s been saying for weeks that people
| need to stop using it, that he''s tired of being hammered on and
| abused, and therefore, he''s shutting it down.  He''ll be
helpful in
| making people choose not to use relays.osirusoft.com in their dnsbl
| tables by blacklisting random and/or all internet addresses, at
| whim."
|
| Per Jim Miller, my system administrator, who watched over my
| shoulder as I posted this.
|
| Andy Finkenstadt

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