Re: Website link for 196.37.169.10

"Alexey Lobanov (dsbl)" <[email protected]> Mon, 18 Dec 2006 12:05:29 +0300
Newsgroups gmane.mail.spam.dsbl.admin
Organization DSBL volunteer
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hello Harold.

On 18/12/06 11:49, [email protected] wrote:

> Please inform me from whom the initial mail was sent as I can then log
> on to our service provider firewall to look for the mail in question.
> How
> can I respond to mail if I do not know from who or where the mail came
> from in the first place.

I repeat that the message contains plain English instruction related to
DSBL. And I assume that you follow basic e-mail standards and look
through all mail for your Postmaster and Abuse addresses. So, it will be
easy for you to recognize this message on your screen - same as you
recognize messages from me and answer me now.

> That in itself is a security breach.

You needn't "respond" this mail. You have to read it and use HTTP URL in
it. However, this detail is not very important.

Alexey

> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alexey Lobanov (dsbl) [mailto:[email protected]] 
> Sent: 18 December 2006 10:05 AM
> To: Administrator
> Cc: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [DSBL-Contact] Website link for 196.37.169.10
> 
> Hello.
> 
> On 18/12/06 10:55, [email protected] wrote:
> 
>> Hi there,from whom would the mail have been generated as I for
> security
>> reasons do not open mail from just anybody.
> 
> Please meditate on RFC 2821, Section 4.5.1 (Minimum Implementation):
> 
> "SMTP systems are expected to make every reasonable effort to accept
> mail directed to Postmaster from any other system on the Internet."
> 
>> Please understand this as
>> South African domains gets hit by viruses on a daily basis.
> 
> Please be informed that there are quite many production operating
> systems and mail reading programs not vulnerable to so-called "viruses".
> Noone enforces you to use known virus-vulnerable systems and application
> programs at your administrative workplace.
> 
> Alexey
> 
> 
> 
> 
>> Thanks
>> harold
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Alexey Lobanov (dsbl) [mailto:[email protected]] 
>> Sent: 18 December 2006 09:18 AM
>> To: Support
>> Cc: [email protected]; Administrator
>> Subject: Re: [DSBL-Contact] Website link for 196.37.169.10
>>
>> Hello.
>>
>> On 18/12/06 09:49, [email protected] wrote:
>>
>>> Please remove IP 196.37.169.10 from your blocking list as all
> problems
>>> have been resolved. i have requested this to be done 7 days ago and
> it
>>> is still listed
>> Yes, because the request has died unfinished at your side. It is not
>> very interesting for DSBL that your mailserver accepts messages for
>> <[email protected]>; DSBL wants to know if someone really reads
>> the messages.
>>
>> Please:
>>
>> 1. Investigate what had hapened with the previous message and why
> noone
>> have read it. The message contained a trivial instruction in plain
>> English.
>>
>> 2. Start new delisting procedure and finish it in accordance with the
>> test message content.
>>
>> Alexey
>> DSBL volunteer
>>
>>
>>>  
>>>
>>> Regards
>>>
>>>  
>>>
>>> Harold Fouche
>>>
>>> Network administrator
>>>
>>> Paracon Holdings(for Kathea Communication Solutions)
>>>
>>> South Africa
>>>
>>> +27829223147
>>>
>>>