innismir.net

Since my e-mail addresses have been around in one form or another for 10+ years (There is a scary thought), I get my fair share of spoofed mail bounces. Normally it’s a annoyance, but occasionally I get some white elephant in my INBOX:

From: uucp <uucp@inetgate.telecom.gomel.by>
Message-Id: <200811150241.mAF2fnrj009642@inetgate.telecom.gomel.by>
To: (ME)
Subject: UUCP job killed

Message from UUCP on gml Sat Nov 15 04:41:49 2008

UUCP job

zip.CK9GSD2AAFVV

for system

zip

requested by

daemon

has been killed.

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Reason: Your mail message has been expired after 672 hours.

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The job was queued at 2008-11-17 14:43:48.

It was

rmail oot@zip.belpak.gomel.by

UUCP? Really? I haven’t seen that in use since the mid-90s, when I first started with the crazy “Internet” thing. But I guess in Belarus it’s still in use. Wow….