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Tiscali repeat


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Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2005 23:50:20 +1100

Some spam just arrived from 83.154.168.192. The headers identify ppp.tiscali.fr as the domain. This is the correct name (returned by DNS lookup). It is a dial-up network.

Headers are as follows:

 From kuo@3aweb.com Sun Jan 16 23:15:39 2005
 Return-Path: <kuo@3aweb.com>
 Received: from dyn-83-154-168-192.ppp.tiscali.fr (dyn-83-154-168-192.ppp.tiscali.fr [83.154.168.192])
 	by pgts04.pgts.com.au (8.11.6/8.11.6) with SMTP id j0GCFYm41527
 	for <info@pgts.com.au>; Sun, 16 Jan 2005 23:15:36 +1100 (EST)
 	(envelope-from kuo@3aweb.com)
 Message-ID: <30e201c4fbc1$1ca00ca4$850832d0@3aweb.com>
 From: "Susan M. Taylor" <kuo@3aweb.com>
 To: info@pgts.com.au
 Subject: =?iso-8859-1?B?U3dpc3Mgd2F0Y2hlcyAtIHJlcGxpY2E=?=
 Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2005 11:52:11 +0000
 MIME-Version: 1.0
 Content-Type: multipart/related;
     type="multipart/alternative";
     boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0000_FA385981.9B2A4014"
 X-Priority: 3
 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
 X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000
 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000

And according to nslookup:

    Non-authoritative answer:
    192.168.154.83.in-addr.arpa     name = dyn-83-154-168-192.ppp.tiscali.fr.

    Authoritative answers can be found from:
    154.83.in-addr.arpa     nameserver = ns3.libertysurf.net.
    154.83.in-addr.arpa     nameserver = ns.ripe.net.
    154.83.in-addr.arpa     nameserver = ns.libertysurf.net.
    154.83.in-addr.arpa     nameserver = ns2.libertysurf.net.

The address 83.154.168.192 is listed in only four lists in OpenRBL (3 lists that i do not use, since they are too agressive). It was listed in SORBS, however there was a removal request!

Tiscali seem to be an International firm providing broadband services. The fact that they are so large, may acoount for their popularity amongst spammers.

Well at least, I have finished the program that formats this blog ... so I can put it online. Next I need to finish the software for editing.


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