For everyone's information, here's an explanation of the problem.
An address from chinamist.com joins ages ago. A year ago, said address
leaves the company but the account is never disabled and nobody ever
bothers to send a bounce back to your humble list owner so that the address
can be removed.
Our rude poster here decides to have his server configured to send all
inbound mail for unknown addresses to him at some home.com address.
I and piles of other folks start getting request to stop sending messages
to this home.com address. Of course, it's not on the list. We have no
idea what's going on, but I ask for full headers. I get back a big pile of
Subject:, To:, From:, CC:, Date:, etc. but not a single useful Received:
header.
Eventually this guy by chance sends a message to me with his Reply-To: set
to the chinamist.com address. I do a quick grep and nuke any chinamist.com
addresses. All is quiet.
He also asked me to pass on his apologies for his rudeness.
- J<
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Received on Mon Jan 31 2000 - 22:39:53 GMT