On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 09:50:47AM +0100, Gordan wrote:
> On Thursday 25 September 2003 03:06, fish wrote:
> > On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 08:31:55PM -0500, Pascal wrote:
> > > Interesting story on Slashdot today.  I wonder how hard it would be to
> > > implement in Freenet?
> > >
> > > http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/24/132216
> >
> > Yes, just what we need, an RBL list that is even less fucking accountable.
> >
> > This has 'bad idea' written all over it.
> 
> I see the reasoning behind what you are saying, but nobody is forcing anyone 
> to use any RBL. If a RBL is too draconian for you, don't use it. For one that 
> errs more on the side of caution.
> 
> RBLs DO help. Period. I have mail logs that prove it. Instead of 50%+ of my 
> email being spam, it is down to about 5%. That is clearly a very positive 
> result. If you have to download the email to spam check it, then you have 
> already taken a bandwidth hit for the whole lot, so milters are a _second_ 
> line of defense.
> 
> But again, we are getting off topic.

Both my ISP and my dyndns address have been occasionally rejected by
RBLs and such crap. I have never ran an open relay. And getting a better
ISP would cost a lot of money and hassle.
> 
> Gordan

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