[ga] Baptista Spam (was ga DNSO list is broken)

[Darrell Greenwood <darrell_greenwood@mindlink.net>]

I understand from another list (nanog) that Joe Baptista has managed
to get a large block (/24) of his ip addresses entered into rbl as a
result of his spamming sysadmins around the world with a phoney bind
survey.

He has now spammed me, and appears to be threatening to mailbomb me
for his own purposes (which I haven't figured out). I have complained
to abuse@alter.net and am advising this list of my actions in case
they are receiving similar spam.

Cheers,

Darrell



traceroute:

11 194.atm9-0-0.gw1.cle1.alter.net      (146.188.209.53 ):   285ms
271ms      264ms
12 diebold-gw.customer.alter.net        (157.130.105.126):   301ms
315ms      334ms
13     *
13 208.228.181.2                        (208.228.181.2  ):   286ms
305ms
14 157.129.104.1                        (157.129.104.1  ):   276ms
244ms      277ms
15 123-diebold-205-189-73.pccf.net      (205.189.73.123 ):   295ms
316ms      288ms
* Trace completed 11/8/99    9:55:16 AM  *


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Subject: ga DNSO list is broken
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Hello:

I am writing to you concerning the ga@dnso.org list of which you and I
are members.  The list has been broken for some time.  I and some other
people seem incapable of transmitting message to it.  Either the list is
broken - or someone is playing games.

Either way, broken list or games - this is a disgrace we in the GA can
not afford.

I have attempted to contact Elisabeth Porteneuve the list administrator
to get this fixed - but these attempts have been without success.

In order to determine what problems there is with the list I am giving
you notice I will be conducting tests on the list to determine exactly
what the problem is.  You may receive one test message - or 260 - it all
depends on what Elisabeth Porteneuve has done to the list.

I also remind all of you, and members of the NC and ICANN board that
having a broken list, or a list on which games are played, does not
inspire confidence in this process.

Regards
Joe Baptista





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Darrell Greenwood           mailto:Darrell_Greenwood@mindlink.net
Vancouver, BC               http://www.nyx.net/~dgreenw/