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And, as it turns out, there IS an actual nowhere.com. I'd be kind of pissed if I owned the domain and the BSA was falsely claming to originate their spider scripts from there.

...is the fact that the BSA is logging into an FTP server that requires a (valid?) email address as the password for anonymous logins with an apparently false email address (guest@nowhere.com). So far as I can tell from a WHOIS lookup and visiting the home page for nowhere.com, the owner of that domain has nothing at all to do with the BSA. Seems like nowhere.com's owner may have a legal claim against the BSA, but how am I supposed to know, I'm only a lawyer ....

Apparently nowhere.com belongs to an artist by the name of Nick Phillip. It seems that he has hooked it up to a bank of fax machines to print out the mail bounces that get sent to it due to spammers using that domain name for their return email addrees.

Perhaps someone should contact him and suggest that he sue the BSA for attempted identity theft?

Stephen

And there is a real nowhere.com.
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Extremely unlikely to have any relationship with BSA. Forging someone else's return address is not ethical behaviour.

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• Click here to fantasize about making sweet love to this classy redheaded independant woman!
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NOWHERE.COM takes all available measures to ensure that no spam originates from this host, or passes through it.

Specifically, we use postfix which will both refuse to relay email, as well as block based on information from the RBL The only valid hosts within the NOWHERE.COM domain are 'mx','ns1', and 'ns2'. Any other hosts claiming to be from within the NOWHERE.COM domain are forgeries.

We assure you, any spam/scam/bulk mail claiming to come from the NOWHERE.COM domain has been forged. Feel free to send a copy of the email you recieved to abuse@nowhere.com, minus threats of legal action, violence and/or death. It is actively being looked into.

Thank you.

p.s. NOWHERE.COM gets about between 5000 and 80000 pieces of email per day, which mostly comprise of bounces, threats and complaints about spamming. We have very limited resources with regard to time, cpu cycles and bandwidth. Please be gentle.

People should really enter x@x.x or something when e-mail addresses are required.

NOWHERE.COM takes all available measures to ensure that no spam originates from this host, or passes through it.

Specifically, we use postfix which will both refuse to relay email, as well as block based on information from the RBL The only valid hosts within the NOWHERE.COM domain are 'mx','ns1', and 'ns2'. Any other hosts claiming to be from within the NOWHERE.COM domain are forgeries.

We assure you, any spam/scam/bulk mail claiming to come from the NOWHERE.COM domain has been forged. Feel free to send a copy of the email you recieved to abuse@nowhere.com, minus threats of legal action, violence and/or death. It is actively being looked into.

Thank you.

p.s. NOWHERE.COM gets about between 5000 and 80000 pieces of email per day, which mostly comprise of bounces, threats and complaints about spamming. We have very limited resources with regard to time, cpu cycles and bandwidth. Please be gentle.

People should really enter x@x.x or something when e-mail addresses are required.

I've set up my /etc/aliases file to redirect all mail to devnull to, well, /dev/null. I find it works quite well to send spam to devnull@mydomain. Thus you prevent the massive load on servers like nowhere.com which, according to the webpage, gets about 80000 (!) pieces of mail a month.
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