blackmail attempt? Stable mailing list block?

[Mike Harding]

I'll drop the thread now, but 2 things:

- somebody 'rejected' my mail in a completely incompetent manner which
  made me think that the mail was rejected by stable at freebsd.org,
  which is was not... note that the return path is <stable at freebsd.org>
  which is going to cause problems.

- Blars had nothing to do with this, as far as I can tell.

- The mail actually came from mail.methos.net, I've included headers.
  As it is a microsoft server, I assume it has nothing to do with
  FreeBSD.  I have no idea who it actually came from because it says
  From: <stable at freebsd.org>.

Hopefully somebody here recognizes the methos.net address, otherwise
you might consider removing them from the list.

Original 'rejection':

Return-Path: <stable at freebsd.org>
X-Original-To: mvh at localhost
Delivered-To: mvh at netcom1.netcom.com
Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1])
	by netcom1.netcom.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F512530B
	for <mvh at localhost>; Fri, 25 Apr 2003 21:18:04 -0700 (PDT)
Status:  U
Received: from popd.ix.netcom.com [207.217.120.162]
	by localhost with POP3 (fetchmail-6.2.0)
	for mvh at localhost (single-drop); Fri, 25 Apr 2003 21:18:04 -0700 (PDT)
Received: from mail.methos.net ([216.54.105.13])
	by penguin (EarthLink SMTP Server) with ESMTP id 199h7bjZ3NZFl40
	for <mvh at ix.netcom.com>; Fri, 25 Apr 2003 21:16:40 -0700 (PDT)
Received: from mail pickup service by mail.methos.net with Microsoft SMTPSVC;
	 Sat, 26 Apr 2003 00:16:08 -0400
thread-index: AcMLqo/W2bpPYyMSRpWLxdA24lNOsA==
Thread-Topic: Mail rejected
From: <stable at freebsd.org>
To: "Mike Harding" <mvh at ix.netcom.com>
Subject: Mail rejected
Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2003 00:16:08 -0400
Message-ID: <05dd01c30baa$8fd606a0$0d6936d8 at methos.net>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
X-Mailer: Microsoft CDO for Exchange 2000
Content-Class: urn:content-classes:message
Importance: normal
Priority: normal
X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165
X-OriginalArrivalTime: 26 Apr 2003 04:16:08.0443 (UTC) FILETIME=[8FFACCB0:01C30BAA]
...
Your message with the subject & "'last' working OK for everybody on 4-STABLE?" addressed to "stable at freebsd.org" <stable at freebsd.org> was rejected by a open relay due to smtp server is listed at block.blars.org
smtp server is listed at blackholes.five-ten-sg.com
smtp server is listed at xbl.selwerd.cx


   X-Original-To: mvh at localhost
   From: Mark Linimon <linimon at lonesome.com>
   Organization: Lonesome Dove Computing Services
   Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2003 10:56:05 -0500
   Content-Disposition: inline
   Sender: owner-freebsd-stable at freebsd.org

   While Blars is legitimate (I ported his "hinfo" utility that consolidates
   lookup information of various spam-blocks), he is the most radical
   of all the spam-block-list maintainers.  This "consulting rate" BS
   is the only known mechanism of appeal to get off of his own list,
   which is so all-inclusive that it is useless for actual email filtering.
   (His IP granularity is generally /24).

   I honestly don't know why the man doesn't go to an ask-first
   system if he's that aggressive about it, but there it is.

   And I can't ask him why, either, as I'm in one of those /24s.

   mcl

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