Re: Email from infotecnica.com.br

Hi all,

I just posted to -performance and I received the following email from
postmaster at infotecnica.com.br:
"The email message sent to pgsql-performance at postgresql.org requires
a confirmation to be delivered. Please, answer this email informing the
characters that you see in the image below."
followed by a captcha image.

I think we should inform the user to remove this sort of thing or
unsubscribe him from the list. It's quite annoying and disturbing for
our users.

The header is:
Delivered-To: guillaume.smet at gmail.com
Received: by 10.114.155.9 with SMTP id c9cs256142wae;
Tue, 25 Dec 2007 16:11:15 -0800 (PST)
Received: by 10.65.213.4 with SMTP id p4mr11350794qbq.7.1198627873793;
Tue, 25 Dec 2007 16:11:13 -0800 (PST)
Return-Path: <root(at)infotecnica(dot)com(dot)br>
Received: from infotecnica.com.br (infotecnica.com.br [201.35.247.5])
by mx.google.com with ESMTP id
a5si3445238qbd.17.2007.12.25.16.11.11;
Tue, 25 Dec 2007 16:11:13 -0800 (PST)
Received-SPF: pass (google.com: domain of root(at)infotecnica(dot)com(dot)br
designates 201.35.247.5 as permitted sender) client-ip=201.35.247.5;
Authentication-Results: mx.google.com; spf=pass (google.com: domain of
root(at)infotecnica(dot)com(dot)br designates 201.35.247.5 as permitted sender)
smtp(dot)mail=root(at)infotecnica(dot)com(dot)br
BrmaOutput: root(at)localhost
Received: (from root(at)localhost)
by infotecnica.com.br (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) id lBQ0ApFU031280;
Tue, 25 Dec 2007 22:10:51 -0200
Date: Tue, 25 Dec 2007 22:10:51 -0200
Message-Id: <200712260010(dot)lBQ0ApFU031280(at)infotecnica(dot)com(dot)br>
X-BRMA-CAPTCHA: Confirm
From: postmaster(at)infotecnica(dot)com(dot)br
MIME-Version: 1.0
To: guillaume.smet at gmail.com
Subject: Confirma��o de envio / Sending confirmation
(captchaid:132433935f7b)

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Guillaume

Guillaume Smet wrote:

> I just posted to -performance and I received the following email from
> postmaster at infotecnica.com.br:

> I think we should inform the user to remove this sort of thing or
> unsubscribe him from the list. It's quite annoying and disturbing for
> our users.

If you can figure out who the guy is, I will get you a beer first chance
I get.

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On Wed, Dec 26, 2007 at 01:26:07AM +0100, Guillaume Smet wrote:
> I just posted to -performance and I received the following email from
> postmaster at infotecnica.com.br:
> "The email message sent to pgsql-performance at postgresql.org requires
> a confirmation to be delivered. Please, answer this email informing the
> characters that you see in the image below."
> followed by a captcha image.
>
> I think we should inform the user to remove this sort of thing or
> unsubscribe him from the list. It's quite annoying and disturbing for
> our users.

We've had several people complain about this -- I think there was a thread
on -hackers as well. I'm happy just to unsubscribe the user, as I'm willing
to bet lunch s/he isn't getting most of the mail. Spammers are using this
mechanism to get people to decode captchas for them, too, so I would never
do it (I've no reason to believe, yet, that that's what's happening in this
case).

A

These guys are a smal software factory, probably some old employee /
dba / sysadmin suscribed their mail and it's not taking anymore that
role.

I can give them a call if it's worth, just let me know.

gb.-

On Dec 26, 2007 12:09 PM, Andrew Sullivan <ajs(at)crankycanuck(dot)ca> wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 26, 2007 at 01:26:07AM +0100, Guillaume Smet wrote:
> > I just posted to -performance and I received the following email from
> > postmaster at infotecnica.com.br:
> > "The email message sent to pgsql-performance at postgresql.org requires
> > a confirmation to be delivered. Please, answer this email informing the
> > characters that you see in the image below."
> > followed by a captcha image.
> >
> > I think we should inform the user to remove this sort of thing or
> > unsubscribe him from the list. It's quite annoying and disturbing for
> > our users.
>
> We've had several people complain about this -- I think there was a thread
> on -hackers as well. I'm happy just to unsubscribe the user, as I'm willing
> to bet lunch s/he isn't getting most of the mail. Spammers are using this
> mechanism to get people to decode captchas for them, too, so I would never
> do it (I've no reason to believe, yet, that that's what's happening in this
> case).
>
> A
>
>
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On Wed, Dec 26, 2007 at 07:19:34PM -0300, Guido Barosio wrote:
> I can give them a call if it's worth, just let me know.

If you know who they are, I'm sure it'd be appreciated.

A

I don't know them, but I can give them a call.

Update later today.

gb.-

On Dec 27, 2007 12:14 PM, Andrew Sullivan <ajs(at)crankycanuck(dot)ca> wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 26, 2007 at 07:19:34PM -0300, Guido Barosio wrote:
> > I can give them a call if it's worth, just let me know.
>
> If you know who they are, I'm sure it'd be appreciated.
>
> A
>
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