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From: Markos Chandras <hwoarang@g.o>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Backscatter and nikko
Date: Mon, 07 May 2012 17:12:38
Message-Id: 4FA80216.2030409@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Backscatter and nikko by Volker Armin Hemmann
1 On 05/03/2012 10:03 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
2 > Am Donnerstag, 3. Mai 2012, 16:36:14 schrieb Michael Mol:
3 >> On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 4:29 PM, Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote:
4 >>> Michael Hampicke wrote:
5 >>>> Am 03.05.2012 18:08, schrieb Paul Hartman:
6 >>>>> On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 11:00 AM, Michael Mol <mikemol@×××××.com> wrote:
7 >>>>>> Is anyone else getting a large amount of gentoo-user-related
8 >>>>>> backscatter from a set of mailservers including nikko.homeunix.net?
9 >>>>>> I've gotten eight in the last five minutes or so.
10 >>>>>
11 >>>>> Yes. One for everything I've posted to the list recently...
12 >>>>
13 >>>> Yes, they are starting to build a line here too. I'm assuming it has
14 >>>> something to do with free cupcakes :)
15 >>>
16 >>> Me too. Just one so far. What is causing this? Is it Gentoo's servers
17 >>> or someone else?
18 >>
19 >> Looks like a misconfiguration on Nikko's internal mailservers.
20 >
21 > jopp, Mr Nikko fucked up and we all get to know about it.
22 >
23 > There are many good reasons not to set up your own mail servers. He is just
24 > demonstrating one of them.
25 >
26 >
27 I reported that to our infrastructure team. They are going to have a
28 look at it
29
30 --
31 Regards,
32 Markos Chandras / Gentoo Linux Developer / Key ID: B4AFF2C2