Re: Mail setup broken (still/again?) - Mailing list pgsql-www

On Tue, 16 Oct 2007 14:08:14 -0300
"Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org> wrote:

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> - --On Tuesday, October 16, 2007 19:01:26 +0200 Magnus Hagander
> <magnus@hagander.net> wrote:
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> > Marc G. Fournier wrote:
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> >> --On Tuesday, October 16, 2007 18:46:28 +0200 Magnus Hagander
> >> <magnus@hagander.net> wrote:
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> >>> Thanks for the quick fixes!
> >>
> >> Thanks for pointing them out, specially the 450 -> 550 change ...
> >> should reduce  some of the repeat hits:
> >>
> >> 4902 <BritneysBoudreaux@postgresql.org>:
> >>  933 <CarrolljeffreyTyler@postgresql.org>:
> >>  876 <EvanoctagonBall@postgresql.org>:
> >>  863 <ErikasegregatePhipps@postgresql.org>:
> >>  848 <JeremiahanthraciteCurry@postgresql.org>:
> >>  845 <JenniehabitualMeade@postgresql.org>:
> >>  805 <KipmoliereRocha@postgresql.org>:
> >>  801 <GwendolynsolonWeston@postgresql.org>:
> >>  793 <AngeliqueshipwreckZapata@postgresql.org>:
> >>  788 <OlliedaggerJuarez@postgresql.org>:
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> >> And that was just today :)
> >
> > What? Several of those aliases *should* exist, no? ;-)
> >
> > I wonder how the hell they come up with those... I mean, what's the
> > percentage that they exist at all. I can understand those that fake
> > bill@ and joe@ and such addresses, but this...
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> I don't know, but the first one with 4902 attempts comes from
>   ... so its not even coming from random 'English'
> sites :)

So why haven't we just blocked mx3.cc.teu.ac.jp at the firewall?

Joshua D. Drake

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> We've had 48535 distinct names attempted 647009 times so far
> today ... and two of them were for bill@postgresql.org, and none for
> joe :)
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