uucp@example.com

[Stuart Jansen]

On Wed, 2007-05-09 at 09:48 -0600, Louis Zirkel wrote:
> UUCP stands for Unix-to-Unix Copy and it's a store and forward type of 
> system that was used back before there was an always on type internet 
> with tcp/ip.  There were routing tables, similar to with tcp/ip which 
> would define how information could be routed through the network.  It 
> was heavily used for email and usenet news, as well as file transfers.  
> The spam vector your seeing is just a way to try and using any historic 
> means necessary to gain traction with your box.

In other words, unless you like to dabble in ancient technologies for
fun, you can just disable the uucp email account. Chances are, it's
probably defined in /etc/aliases so you can just remove it then run
newaliases to update the alias database.

-- 
Stuart Jansen              e-mail/jabber: sjansen at buscaluz.org
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"However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at 
the results." -- Winston Churchill
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