A friend, let's call him Deep Packet, is not surprised that he's gotten spam relayed from an MIT server. Hey, it's a big institution and they've got some clever kids over there:
"Rather, I'm surprised because it's a main MIT mail relay and that that MIT has failed to respond to my trouble ticket in a week, and in response to my end run (by complaining to the MIT 'ombudsman') they say it will take 'weeks' to correct. ... The mail got bounced only because I hand hacked my own tables to block that and several similar domains. I've been seeing ~ one piece of spam a day from MIT for past ten days or so; one I let in showed it was from a Mexican originating IP address. That should be a straightforward fix to sendmail to deny off campus network relaying. (They have grandiose plans, of course -- they're MIT)."
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