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[Patrick Coleman]

On 5/1/07, Richard Meyer <meyerri at westnet.com.au> wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-05-01 at 20:36 +0800, Patrick Coleman wrote:
> > On 5/1/07, Cameron Patrick <cameron at patrick.wattle.id.au> wrote:
> > > Arie Hol wrote:
> > >
> > > > Every time I reply to a message from the PLUG mailing list I get the
> > > > following response from anonymous (see below).
> > > >
> > > > Is this designed to piss me off, or is there something going wrong with
> > > > the mail server ?
> > >
> > > Hi Arie,
> > >
> > > Yes, it's a cunning plot specifically to piss you off.^W^W^W^W^W^W^W^W
> > >
> > > I've just had a look at the mail server logs on PLUG's servers.  The
> > > only messages being sent to you are list traffic.  I'm at a loss to
> > > explain what you're seeing, but I doubt it's something that the PLUG
> > > admins can fix directly.  Would you mind sending me (off-list) the full
> > > headers of these bounce messages you've been getting?
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > >
> > > Cameron
> >
> > Ha, beat me to it. I'm getting them too, but google's anti-spam
> > capabilities are evidently too good.
> >
> > I could be wrong, but it looks somewhat like a user that's deleted
> > their mailbox but not unsubscribed, and the bounce is returning to the
> > list (rather than plug-bounces@ - evil mailserver) and not being
> > caught by mailman; in which case unsubscribing bruno at ozbevnet.com
> > would fix the problem.
>
> Um, surely all other subscribers and I should be getting them too. I'm
> not - but I'll swap you two "pump-and-dump" emails for each one of these
> you get.  ;-)

You're right :) Looking at it properly it's more like a badly
misconfigured home mailserver (.static.dsl.amnet.net.au).

Suggestions to fix?

-Patrick


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