Re: Menubar Spamcopped

[Toni Willberg <toniw iki fi>]

On Mon, 2005-06-20 at 14:48 -0400, Owen Taylor wrote:
>  if whoever is reporting us keeps reporting us? I think we ought to
> > get the reporting address updated to make 'gnome-sysadmin gnome org', or
> > 'mailman gnome org', or 'gnome-listadmin gnome org' or one of our many
> > aliases the POC for menubar spam issues. Does anyone know how we would
> > do that?
> 
> How is this "reporting address" configured? Since it points to 
> someone at Red Hat, I assume that it's per-IP-block in some way?
> (there is no involvement of Red Hat in gnome.org forward DNS)

The reporting address comes from the whois data as shown below.

There could be couple of ways to direct the reports to the GNOME
sysadmins: a) assign an own netblock for GNOME, b) create an "ISP
account" for GNOME sysadmins at Spamcop.

I'll try the b) way, and try creating such account using
"sysadmin gnome org" as the handle.


[twillber ihaa ~]$ whois 12.107.209.248
[Querying whois.arin.net]
[whois.arin.net]
AT&T WorldNet Services ATT (NET-12-0-0-0-1)
                                  12.0.0.0 - 12.255.255.255
RED HAT SOFTWARE RED-HAT511-208 (NET-12-107-208-0-1)
                                  12.107.208.0 - 12.107.209.255

# ARIN WHOIS database, last updated 2005-06-19 19:10
# Enter ? for additional hints on searching ARIN's WHOIS database.
[twillber ihaa ~]$ whois NET-12-107-208-0-1 whois arin net
[Querying whois.arin.net]
[whois.arin.net]

OrgName:    RED HAT SOFTWARE
OrgID:      RHS-28
Address:    2600 MERIDAN PARKWAY
City:       DURHAM
StateProv:  NC
PostalCode: 27713
Country:    US

NetRange:   12.107.208.0 - 12.107.209.255
CIDR:       12.107.208.0/23
NetName:    RED-HAT511-208
NetHandle:  NET-12-107-208-0-1
Parent:     NET-12-0-0-0-1
NetType:    Reassigned
Comment:
RegDate:    2001-06-24
Updated:    2001-06-24

TechHandle: ZB81-ARIN
TechName:   Brandenberg, stacy
TechPhone:  +1-919-547-0012
TechEmail:  sbranden redhat com

OrgTechHandle: ZB81-ARIN
OrgTechName:   Brandenberg, stacy
OrgTechPhone:  +1-919-547-0012
OrgTechEmail:  sbranden redhat com

# ARIN WHOIS database, last updated 2005-06-19 19:10
# Enter ? for additional hints on searching ARIN's WHOIS database.

- Toni