Return-Path: X-Original-To: apmail-spamassassin-users-archive@www.apache.org Delivered-To: apmail-spamassassin-users-archive@www.apache.org Received: from mail.apache.org (hermes.apache.org [140.211.11.3]) by minotaur.apache.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9F2801081A for ; Wed, 8 May 2013 14:01:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 70515 invoked by uid 500); 8 May 2013 14:01:22 -0000 Delivered-To: apmail-spamassassin-users-archive@spamassassin.apache.org Received: (qmail 70156 invoked by uid 500); 8 May 2013 14:01:18 -0000 Mailing-List: contact users-help@spamassassin.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk list-help: list-unsubscribe: List-Post: List-Id: Delivered-To: mailing list users@spamassassin.apache.org Received: (qmail 69981 invoked by uid 99); 8 May 2013 14:01:17 -0000 Received: from athena.apache.org (HELO athena.apache.org) (140.211.11.136) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Wed, 08 May 2013 14:01:17 +0000 X-ASF-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.0 required=10.0 tests=SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: apache.org Received-SPF: pass (athena.apache.org: domain of Bowie_Bailey@buc.com designates 205.245.136.111 as permitted sender) Received: from [205.245.136.111] (HELO bnofimage1.buc.com) (205.245.136.111) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with SMTP; Wed, 08 May 2013 14:01:12 +0000 Received: from bucmail.buc.com ([172.16.17.38]) by bnofimage1.buc.com (SAVSMTP 3.1.0.29) with SMTP id M2013050810005016939 for ; Wed, 08 May 2013 10:00:50 -0400 Received: from [172.16.3.237] ([::ffff:172.16.3.237]) (AUTH: LOGIN bowieb@bucmail.buc.com, TLS: TLSv1/SSLv3,256bits,AES256-SHA) by bucmail.buc.com with esmtp; Wed, 08 May 2013 10:00:49 -0400 id 0013872A.518A5A91.00006A3B Message-ID: <518A5A90.7090003@BUC.com> Date: Wed, 08 May 2013 10:00:48 -0400 From: Bowie Bailey User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130328 Thunderbird/17.0.5 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Re: .pw / Palau URL domains in spam References: <517AA3C2.7030807@gmail.com> <517AA4BC.90904@gmail.com> <517F122C.3050508@trimble.com> <20130430011759.12077.qmail@joyce.lan> <1367407460198-104485.post@n5.nabble.com> <5180FF83.9030607@gmail.com> <5181149E.3090009@PCCC.com> <51811831.4090700@gmail.com> <1367417173721-104496.post@n5.nabble.com> <1367773126011-104548.post@n5.nabble.com> <37fa49bba87d625cd6696a9c791b124d@junc.eu> <1fc63a67b5c826fae5a0b893c60791ec@junc.eu> <1367967795.4790.16.camel@monkey> In-Reply-To: <1367967795.4790.16.camel@monkey> X-Mime-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by courier 0.65.0 X-Virus-Checked: Checked by ClamAV on apache.org On 5/7/2013 7:03 PM, Karsten Br=E4ckelmann wrote: > On Sun, 2013-05-05 at 22:49 +0200, Benny Pedersen wrote: >> John Hardin skrev den 2013-05-05 22:44: >>>>> We request you to report the domain names at abuse.alert @registry.= pw and >>>>> also cc the same mail to abuse.alert @directi.com. >>>> why does abuse @any-sender-domain.pw not work ? >>> Because that's the responsibility of the domain owner, not the regist= rar. > Indeed. Though it seems, participants in the following sub-thread forgo= t > what this is about. > > The working assumption is reporting (sender) domains as spamming. > > Reporting abuse of a domain specifically registered with the clear > intention to spam, to the very domain's abuse@ address, is pointless. > It's like letting the spammers know you've read it... And, for what it's worth, they are responding to spam reports. I have=20 been reporting all of the .pw domains I see in spams to the addresses=20 they provided and they have been taking down the domains. --=20 Bowie