[c-nsp] OT: Pingsta spam

[e ninja]

Jay,

This is not spam, it's a mailserver bug. check the blog post
http://pingstapeople.blogspot.com/

/e



On Jan 1, 2008 9:00 PM, Jay Hennigan <jay at west.net> wrote:

> Anyone on-list heard of pingsta.com?  Within the last hour I've received
> ten "invitations" to join them as an "internetwork expert".
>
> My immediate reaction is to never do business with spammers, but I'm
> curious if anyone else here has heard of them, and if they may be
> scraping addresses from this list.  They claim to be invitation only,
> but if that's the case some anonymous person has invited me several
> times in the last few minutes.  Whois turns up nothing useful.  They're
> hiding behind a GoDaddy anonymizer, not a good sign.  DNS by netdojo.net
> which has a Mailboxes, Etc. address in San Jose.
>
> So they are either outright spammers or clueless enough to run an
> invitation system that has no rate-limiting or sanity checking or both.
>
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