[Xitami] Administrivia: pol.co.uk user

[Brian {Hamilton Kelly}]

In message <20031022090738.E74193C486F0@basilica.la.naos.co.nz>
   Ewen McNeill writes:
> Sorry to bother everyone.
> 
> Someone, who connects to pol.co.uk (an ISP in the United Kingdom), has 
> taken to bouncing all the messages from the Xitami list back to me with
> a forged bounce message claiming they are from postmaster@lists.xitami.org.

Oh dear.

> However the bounce messages are worse than useless as they contain no
> indication of which account the messages were delivered to, no headers
> from the original message, and there are no users on the Xitami mailing
> list using a pol.co.uk email address.

pol.co.uk (Planet On-Line) are the ISP arm of Energis (who are, or were,
a telco).  They provide the infrastructure for Freeserve (amongst others)
in all its manifestations.  Doubtless you have subscribers with addresses
of the form someone@somenode.freeserve.co.uk, so@sn.fsnet.co.uk, etc.
(The full list of potential parent domains for the "somenode" is listed
on Freeserve's sign-up web pages.)

> Failing that I'll have to complain to the abuse department at pol.co.uk
> and see if they can either identify the user (eg, from the IP address
> they were assigned at the time) or ask them to stop doing so.

It IS an abuse; moreover, such forgery is against Freeserve's AUP (as
will be the case with most if not all ISPs).  How is it that people are
quite so stupid about unsubscribing from mailing lists?

-- 
Brian {Hamilton Kelly}                                          bhk@dsl.co.uk
    "We can no longer stand apart from Europe if we would.  Yet we are
    untrained to mix with our neighbours, or even talk to them".
                                              George Macaulay Trevelyan, 1919