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Received at one of my role addresses:

The following message sent by this account has violated system policy:

Connection From: 82.8.79.93
From: [role account]@xcski.com
To: noreply@centerparcs.com
Date: Thu, 03 Nov 2005 17:59:26 +0100
Subject: test

The following violations were detected:

— Scan information follows —

Virus Name: W32.Lovgate.R@mm
File Attachment: xsmru.zip
Attachment Status: deleted

— File name Block information follows —

File Attachment: xsmru.zip
Matching file name: Message is considered to be a mass-mailer.

My response:

Your ignorance of the difference between an easily and almost assuredly forged “From” line and the real sender violates my policy of not accepting email from fuckwits or from systems run by fuckwits. Have a good day.

This entry was posted by Paul Tomblin on November 3, 2005 at 18:00 GMT under Geekery, Rant. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed. Follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.

4 Comments

  1. Frank Ch. Eigler says:

    Yeah, seeing that you use SPF, they have little excuse.

    November 3, 2005, 18:15 GMT

  2. Sean Willard says:

    Great Scott. You actually respond to those? I haven’t bothered for a couple of years now. Ditto for “your spam was rejected” mails.

    November 3, 2005, 21:19 GMT

  3. Paul Tomblin says:

    I don’t respond very often, but this one made it through my spam filters.

    November 3, 2005, 21:19 GMT

  4. Mentis Fugit says:

    For the love of symmetry, I hope you sent that reply to abuse@centerparcs.com?

    November 4, 2005, 00:10 GMT

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