[anti-abuse-wg] AS16019, vodafone.cz == idiots

Ronald,

my two cents on this:
>    http://www.openspf.net/Why?s=mfrom;id=rfg%40tristatelogic.com;ip=80.95.99.97;r=mail2.dkm.cz

There are many SMTP relays in the world checking SPF record for the incoming mail and providing a diagnostics with openspf.net web.

But unfortunately this website is down for almost two years and this diagnostics leads to nowhere.

If someone is running a mail relay, then now is a good time to check its responses.


--
Kind regards,
Sergey Myasoedov




> On 12 Dec 2020, at 11:36, Ronald F. Guilmette <rfg at tristatelogic.com> wrote:
> 
> Some days I am inclined to wonder how or why anything at all actually
> works on this planet.  I suspect that I am not alone, given that
> Covid-19 has now exposed for all the world to see just how inept and
> dysfunctional even so-called "first world" systems are at dealing
> with anything that is even just a little bit out of the ordinary.
> 
> Another case in point: AS16019 aka vodafone.cz, whose formally
> declared abuse reporting address, as given in the WHOIS record
> for the ASN, is abuse at vodafone.cz.  Unfortunately, if you send
> a copy of a spam that you have received from their network to that
> address, you will get back something that may look vaguely like this:
> 
> <spamrd at vf.dkm.cz>: host mail2.dkm.cz[62.24.64.36] said: 550 5.7.1
>    <spamrd at vf.dkm.cz>: Recipient address rejected: Please see
>    http://www.openspf.net/Why?s=mfrom;id=rfg%40tristatelogic.com;ip=80.95.99.97;r=mail2.dkm.cz
> 
> So, the retorical question for the day is:  Just how completely idiotic
> does any given group of network operators have to be in order to be
> unable to just simply operate a functioning email address for inbound
> messages?
> 
> I guess Vodafone is either too broke or too cheap to hire merely competent
> people.
> 
> It would be one thing if this was an impoverished third-world country
> involved here, but it isn't.  It's the Czech Republic.  So what is their
> excuse for this level of sheer incompetence?
> 
> Does someone need to send a formal memo to Vodafone, explaining to them
> about this thing called spam?
> 
> And why are they even leaving port 25 outbound open on end-luser lines?
> 
> 
> Regards,
> rfg
>