spam relaying by the big boys

Phil Howard sez:
{abuse@uu.net}

So the PR department got the word out before the sysadmins got the mailbox
created? So which department is overloaded?

Nope. It was valid [I will NOT say "it worked..."] until
late last week. You got an auto-placabo message back.

So did UUnet remove it in response to the UDP?