This file is one of the evidence, example or data files that accompanies the "Nadine" Story, an account of commercial mailing lists gone amok. See the main page for the details.
I decided to try to help a game player who had signed up at a web site with an incorrect email address and was not receiving important messages regarding the state of play. Since the traffic to this account was in French I guessed that this person was in Belgium and sent a query to the corresponding "honet.be" address, which was initially accepted by the honet.be mail server:
Fri 2002-01-18 19:49:32: [460:4751] Waiting for protocol initiation... Fri 2002-01-18 19:49:32: [460:4751] 220 X1 NT-ESMTP Server honet.be (IMail 4.06 30486-1) Fri 2002-01-18 19:49:32: [460:4751] EHLO rabendary.tesp.com Fri 2002-01-18 19:49:33: [460:4751] 250-honet.be says hello Fri 2002-01-18 19:49:33: [460:4751] 250-SIZE 0 Fri 2002-01-18 19:49:33: [460:4751] 250-ETRN Fri 2002-01-18 19:49:33: [460:4751] 250 EXPN Fri 2002-01-18 19:49:33: [460:4751] MAIL From:<postmaster@HONet.com> SIZE=868 Fri 2002-01-18 19:49:33: [460:4751] 250 ok Fri 2002-01-18 19:49:33: [460:4751] RCPT To:<hot@honet.be> Fri 2002-01-18 19:49:33: [460:4751] 250 ok accepted for peer <hot@honet.be> Fri 2002-01-18 19:49:33: [460:4751] DATA Fri 2002-01-18 19:49:34: [460:4751] 354 ok, send it; end with <CRLF>.<CRLF> Fri 2002-01-18 19:49:34: [460:4751] Sending <E:\MDAEMON\REMOTEQ\pd50000022004.msg> to [193.121.210.66] Fri 2002-01-18 19:49:34: [460:4751] Transfer Complete. Fri 2002-01-18 19:49:34: [460:4751] 250 Message queued Fri 2002-01-18 19:49:34: [460:4751] QUIT Fri 2002-01-18 19:49:35: [460:4751] 221 Goodbye Fri 2002-01-18 19:49:35: [460:4751] SMTP session successful, 906 bytes transferred.
Apparently the person concerned is either (a) not a Belgian or (b) even more confused about his/her address than I had imagined, because the message ultimately bounced:
Return-path: <postmaster@honet.be> Received: from honet.be [193.121.210.66] by tesp.com [192.168.42.2] with SMTP (MDaemon.v3.5.0.R) for <postmaster@HONet.com>; Fri, 18 Jan 2002 19:55:31 -0600 Date: Sat, 19 Jan 102 02:49:04 +0100 Message-Id: <10201190249.AA00220@honet.be> From: "Postmaster" <postmaster@honet.be> Reply-To: <postmaster@honet.be> To: <postmaster@HONet.com> Subject: Undeliverable Mail X-Mailer: <SMTP32 v980629> X-MDRcpt-To: postmaster@honet.com X-MDRemoteIP: 193.121.210.66 X-Return-Path: postmaster@honet.be X-MDaemon-Deliver-To: postmaster@HONet.com Invalid final delivery userid: hot@honet.be Original message follows. Received: from rabendary.tesp.com [204.178.72.212] by honet.be with ESMTP (SMTPD32-4.06) id A08E44BE0126; Sat, 19 Jan 2002 02:49:02 +0100 Received: from ITX [192.168.42.3] by tesp.com [192.168.42.2] with SMTP (MDaemon.v3.5.0.R) for <hot@honet.be>; Fri, 18 Jan 2002 19:48:33 -0600 From: <postmaster@HONet.com> To: hot@honet.be Subject: Une question pressante Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2002 19:48:27 -0600 Organization: Home Office Networks Message-ID: <h0kh4u0lec5lup2p4p5snedn0ki3jha2q7@4ax.com> X-Mailer: Forte Agent 1.8/32.548 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MDRemoteIP: 192.168.42.3 X-Return-Path: postmaster@HONet.com X-MDaemon-Deliver-To: hot@honet.be Êtes-vous un joueur à sc.wgtour.com? mdr -- The hits just keep on coming for poor "Nadine". Sad tale of email lists gone horribly wrong is now in progress at <http://www.honet.com/Nadine/> F - IW GVAP
Trying the same ploy on the assumption that the person might be in Germany, I sent a similar query to the corresponding honet.de account, but found that honet.de was much more abrupt:
Fri 2002-01-18 19:57:34: [316:4763] RCPT To:<hot@honet.de> Fri 2002-01-18 19:57:35: [316:4763] 550 Unknown local part hot in <hot@honet.de>