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List:       procmail
Subject:    Re: HELP: Indian WHOIS and tracing these spams
From:       era eriksson <era () iki ! fi>
Date:       1998-03-30 14:12:52
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On Mon, 30 Mar 1998 14:24:22 +0100, Richard Travett
<Richard.Travett@CAMBRIDGE.SIMOCO.COM> wrote:
 > I've had 2 spams originating from md2.vsnl.net.in by the look of
 > things, (but I'm not sure - The first valid Received header looks as
 > if it just hasn't stamped a 'from' part at all - Are they using an
 > old sendmail?). However, I tried Sam Spade for WHOIS info. It

Yeah, they should be blocked until they demonstrate that they
demonstrate that they have figured out they have a problem.

 > points me at a web site 'http://www.iisc.ernet.in/' which turns
 > out to be 'Indian Institute Of Science'!!! Connection is very

Does it give you better results than just contacting APnic?

 $ host md2.vsnl.net.in
 md2.vsnl.net.in has address 202.54.6.20
 md2.vsnl.net.in mail is handled by mmds.pppmad.vsnl.net.in
 md2.vsnl.net.in mail is handled by md2.vsnl.net.in

 $ whois -h whois.apnic.net 202.54.6

 inetnum:     202.54.6.0 - 202.54.6.255
 netname:     VSNL-MAD
 descr:       VSNL Madras
 country:     IN
 admin-c:     AK1-IN
 tech-c:      NS1-IN
 changed:     neeraj@giasbm01.vsnl.net.in 970304
 source:      APNIC

 person:      Amitabh Kumar
 address:     VSNL, MG ROAD , FORT MUMBAI
 country:     IN
 phone:       +91 22 2624020
 fax-no:      +91 22 2624070
 e-mail:      amitabh@giasbm01.vsnl.net.in
 nic-hdl:     AK1-IN
 changed:     yoshiko@apnic.net 980319
 source:      APNIC

 person:      NEERAJ SONKER
 address:     VIDESH SANCHAR NIGAM LTD.
 address:     VIDESH SANCHAR BHAWAN, M.G.ROAD, FORT, BOMBAY 400 001
 phone:       +91 22 2624020 ext 2167
 fax-no:      +91 22 2624070
 e-mail:      neeraj@giasbm01.vsnl.net.in
 nic-hdl:     NS1-IN
 notify:      neeraj@giasbm01.vsnl.net.in
 changed:     neeraj@giasbm01.vsnl.net.in 951117
 source:      APNIC

Good luck, they're clueless. Mailed both contacts when I got spam
relayed over one of their servers a couple of weeks ago. A week before
that, somebody else on Spam-L had gotten relay-spam via them. 
  Some time ago, I corresponded with someone on a completely different
matter, namely invalid Message-Id:s, who also had a rather low opinion
on VSNL based on their (non-) responsiveness to his complaints about
their broken software.

/* era */

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  they'll hunt you down and spam you. <http://www.iki.fi/~era/spam/>

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