Cox, Danny H. wrote:
I agree. But you should be using a scalpel instead of a sledgehammer. I've been blacklisted just because of the IP address range of my service provider. No investigational my server, no questioning of me, just a blacklist.Black Lists are an appropriate punishment for certain offenders.
I have located about 6 primary sources (major outlets) of SPAM that were producing about 200 SPAM messages per day on my net. Many were porn.
I'm really sorry you have experienced this. It truly sucks.
open relay is the responsibility of the system owner. Nobody else. If the owner of that system isn't responsive, then it makes sense to blacklist just that machine. Unfortunately, maintaining such a blacklist is extremely expensive and incurs a great deal of legal liability. Instead, I think the combination of stamps, filters, white lists that I'm developing through camram provides a much finer grained tool that will hit less innocent e-mail without requiring much if any user involvement.As to "innocents", if a network environment is allowing open relay, nobody on that network is innocent - my opinion.
probably. Again, we need to make sending spam more expensive than the profit they will make from their evil business.SPAM is one of the 5 (probably #2) largest drains on internet bandwidth - only beaten by rampant virus hopping - again my opinion.
not a problem. You were polite and I appreciate that. Spam is a hot button issue for many folks.Sorry for the soapbox message.
---eric
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