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From:
Dan Sugalski
Date:
March 30, 2000 08:28
Subject:
Re: Problems reporting perl bugs
Message ID:
4.3.0.20000330112606.018ea340@24.8.96.48
At 09:25 AM 3/30/00 -0700, Tom Christiansen wrote:
> >At 09:20 AM 3/30/00 -0700, Tom Christiansen wrote:
> >> >... while talking to mail.perl.com.:
> >> >>>> MAIL From:<lvirden@cas.org>
> >> ><<< 550 Access denied
> >> >554 <perlbug@perl.com>... Service unavailable
> >>
> >>cas.org was on my old (and revived) list of evil openrelay and/or
> >>spamhavens.  After the first few hundred pieces of spam at the start
> >>of a week, you do something about it.
>
> >You're a touch over-eager, I think. You're blocking mail from me too and,
> >last I knew, nobody'd used my machine as a spam-relay...
>
>No, I am not blocking mail from sidhe.org.

Ummm... yes you are. A quick transcript:

[dan@tuatha dan]$ uname -a
Linux tuatha.sidhe.org 2.2.5-15 #1 Mon Apr 19 23:00:46 EDT 1999 i686 unknown
[dan@tuatha dan]$ telnet mail.perl.com smtp
Trying 199.45.135.9...
Connected to mail.perl.com.
Escape character is '^]'.
220 chthon.perl.com ESMTP Sendmail 8.9.3/8.9.3; Thu, 30 Mar 2000 09:26:34 
-0700)
HELO tuatha.sidhe.org
250 chthon.perl.com Hello c375238-a.brstl1.ct.home.com [24.8.96.48], 
pleased tou
MAIL FROM:<dan@sidhe.org>
550 Your site is blacklisted as a spam haven.
quit
221 chthon.perl.com closing connection
Connection closed by foreign host.

FWIW, my mail server's hanging off the TCI/AT&T @Home network, which might 
be part of the problem. (Might want to fix the 550 message some if you can 
in that case, though)

					Dan

--------------------------------------"it's like this"-------------------
Dan Sugalski                          even samurai
dan@sidhe.org                         have teddy bears and even
                                      teddy bears get drunk


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