Mails not from me

[Norman Silverstone]

On Tue, 2010-11-02 at 11:26 +0000, Alan Pope wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Looks like someone was trying to send a bunch of spam mail to the
> ubuntu-users to the list as me.
> 
> https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-users/2010-November/233157.html
> 
> It wasn't me or any system I own/administer, broken or otherwise. From
> one of those mails:-
> 
> Received: from [175.107.158.213] (helo=dev)
> 	by chlorine.canonical.com with esmtp (Exim 4.69)
> 	(envelope-from <alan at popey.com>) id 1PDDtx-0001M8-9o
> 	for ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com; Tue, 02 Nov 2010 10:15:37 +0000
> Received: from dev (localhost [127.0.0.1])
> 	by dev (Postfix) with SMTP id 7708995A8540
> 	for <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>;
> 	Tue,  2 Nov 2010 05:15:32 -0500 (CDT)
> 
> Where 175.107.158.213 is:-
> 
> k9.ausics.net           A       175.107.158.213
> 
> Only person I can see using that address on this list is Res.
> 
> Received: from k9.ausics.net ([175.107.158.213])
>        by chlorine.canonical.com with esmtp (Exim 4.69)
>        (envelope-from <res at ausics.net>) id 1Oibgy-0001SE-DD
>        for ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com; Tue, 10 Aug 2010 00:23:40 +0100
> 
> So I guess he's trying to get me blocked for spam. Nice.
> 
> I've blocked that host from mailing this list which should stop the
> mails coming through. Apologies for the disruption.

 Thanks for the info and the action just received another batch.

Norman