----- Original Message -----
From: "Mads Martin Jørgensen"
* Sebastian Helms
[Jun 12. 2001 12:30]: A guy says his From: address is news@solar.phoenix.anet, which is a non-existant domain. He tries continuessly to connect to our mailserver to send mail to suse-linux from the 7 T-Online IPs in question. Our mailserver rejects all of them, because phoenix.anet is a non-existant domain.
Maybe you could put this into complaint form an add some lines or statistics from the logs. Then that could be a fine base from which to start making T-Online aware of this problem.
That's what I did twice. They have several examples from our logs.
Trust me -- I did not *just* block them. I waited for several days before I even complained. Then I waited another week, and complained again. Then I complained and blocked. Complained and unblocked. And now you have the fifth attempt in complaining.
Why don't you just look up the s***er who spammed the list via smtprelay*.t-online.de, go to his address and beat the heck out of him... Don't know how? Just lok at the headers. To use smtprelay*.t-online.de you have to 'come from' a t-online ip address. If so, you can relay any email to anywhere; if not, err550. AND: smtprelay*.t-online.de puts an additional line in the headers, which contains the account number of the sender, for he HAS to be a t-online customer ro use the relay... AND2: if you have this account number, you can find his homepage at home.t-online.de/home/${account-number}, and in in every $PUBLIC_DIR on that web server there is a hidden file called .impressum.html which just contains real name, address and phone number of the owner of that account.... BUT: this only works if the user actually HAS a homepage (that is, has uploaded some files to his webspace) But I think, someone who is so f***ing dumb to spam via the mail server of his ISP, is quite possibly also dumb enough to have the homepage activated without knowing the hidden impressum file :)