On 8/26/2015 5:09 PM, Always Learning wrote:> Whoops. Lovehearts just arrived. They don't look like 'hearts' to me. > > Have complained to lovehearts.com owner = Swizzels Matlow Ltd, an > English company.its loverhearts.com, and they are also using heartslover.com for web links. the first domain is registered to someone claiming to be in Miami Florida, while the 2nd is registered to some organization in Bangladesh. yeah, right. Both domains were initially registered about a month ago. -- john r pierce, recycling bits in santa cruz
On Wed, 2015-08-26 at 17:22 -0700, John R Pierce wrote:> its loverhearts.com, and they are also using heartslover.com for web > links. the first domain is registered to someone claiming to be in > Miami Florida, while the 2nd is registered to some organization in > Bangladesh. yeah, right. Both domains were initially registered about > a month ago.You are correct. Now to apologise to lovehearts.com Easier just to block Digital Ocean for port 25 - as I have previously done for all port 80 traffic. Thanks. -- Regards, Paul. England, EU. England's place is in the European Union.
On 8/26/2015 5:30 PM, Always Learning wrote:> Easier just to block Digital Ocean for port 25 - as I have previously > done for all port 80 traffic.you realize Digital Ocean is a rather large virtual private server provider? wikipedia says they host over 190,000 sites, and last year surpassed Rackspace to become the 4th largest hosting provider. a blanket block of /16 subnets is usually not good policy just because of one bad customer. -- john r pierce, recycling bits in santa cruz
On 08/26/2015 08:22 PM, John R Pierce wrote:> On 8/26/2015 5:09 PM, Always Learning wrote: >> Whoops. Lovehearts just arrived. They don't look like 'hearts' to me. >> >> Have complained to lovehearts.com owner = Swizzels Matlow Ltd, an >> English company. > > its loverhearts.com, and they are also using heartslover.com for web > links. the first domain is registered to someone claiming to be in > Miami Florida, while the 2nd is registered to some organization in > Bangladesh. yeah, right. Both domains were initially registered > about a month agodigital ocean finally replied (at least to me): Hi there, I'm sorry about this. We gave our customer time to resolve the issue, and he hasn't done so, so we've blocked his ability to send email, pending further action if necessary to ensure this never occurs again. If you get or hear about ANY further spam like this, please let me know immediately so we can take further action on it. Regards, Cash, Trust & Safety Specialist Digital Ocean Support Perhaps it's fixed if only for a little while. -- public gpg key id: AE60F64C
On Wed, August 26, 2015 7:40 pm, zep wrote:> > > On 08/26/2015 08:22 PM, John R Pierce wrote: >> On 8/26/2015 5:09 PM, Always Learning wrote: >>> Whoops. Lovehearts just arrived. They don't look like 'hearts' to me. >>> >>> Have complained to lovehearts.com owner = Swizzels Matlow Ltd, an >>> English company. >> >> its loverhearts.com, and they are also using heartslover.com for web >> links. the first domain is registered to someone claiming to be in >> Miami Florida, while the 2nd is registered to some organization in >> Bangladesh. yeah, right. Both domains were initially registered >> about a month ago > > digital ocean finally replied (at least to me): > > Hi there, > > I'm sorry about this. We gave our customer time to resolve the issue, > and he hasn't done so, so we've blocked his ability to send email, > pending further action if necessary to ensure this never occurs again. > > If you get or hear about ANY further spam like this, please let me > know immediately so we can take further action on it. > > Regards, > Cash, Trust & Safety Specialist > Digital Ocean Support > > Perhaps it's fixed if only for a little while. >Good to hear that. At least they are not as arrogant as big guys often are. Happily unblocked their blocks of IP addresses (as they do not need this sort of pressure to hear out about the trouble with their customer). This message will inadvertedly serve as a test if what is said is done ;-) Valeri ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Valeri Galtsev Sr System Administrator Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics University of Chicago Phone: 773-702-4247 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
On Thursday 27 August 2015 01:40:21 zep wrote:> digital ocean finally replied (at least to me): > > Hi there, > > I'm sorry about this. We gave our customer time to resolve the issue, > and he hasn't done so, so we've blocked his ability to send email, pending > further action if necessary to ensure this never occurs again. > > If you get or hear about ANY further spam like this, please let me know > immediately so we can take further action on it. > > Regards, > Cash, Trust & Safety Specialist > Digital Ocean Support > > Perhaps it's fixed if only for a little while.I can confirm that I haven't received anything since midnight yesterday morning so fingers crossed