Patrick J. LoPresti wrote: > The solution? Block all cable/DSL/dialup address ranges. (This is > what dialups.easynet.nl is for.) Done.
Thanks for the explanation, Pat. Indeed I am running a POP proxy, but send SMTP direct via MX record instead of via my ADSL provider's SMTP. The reason for that is not wanting to congest their mailserver through volume of mail, which has sometimes exceeded 40,000/day. Running a local DNS proxy also relieves the load on their DNS, and is far faster. I've a fair bit of historical reason to want to do it this way, having been variously flung off or had list traffic tarpitted by various ISP's. This works, causes the ISP (and me:) no trouble. I'm on fixed IP, behind a NAT router with all ports blocked except the few I have opened to run SMTP, POP, FTP & HTTP. There's up to date virus checking and spam filtering on incoming mail, and a software firewall to nail any trojan activity on the LAN side. Never had a virus nor distributed a spam, despite endless I merely mention all this to demonstrate that I try to do things responsibly :) I'd far prefer to do it all from a co-located box on a 'proper' connection, but it's a non-commercial, enthusiast list which costs me money, and I can't afford that level of expense. Nor do I fancy my chances with trying to configure a 'proper' Linux installation to do all this. But, I DETEST spammers, so I do understand the logic of what you are saying, and the need to intervene with effective strategies. However, the sort of use I'm making of ADSL is not uncommon, and is likely to become increasingly prevalent. I can't help feeling that heavy-duty techies who setup and run big, proper machines with fat pipes are perhaps just a little dismissive or contemptuous of the trickle-down of these technologies to the know-nothing hoi-polloi. They'd be furious, I suspect, to find themselves stuck in a blocked IP range because of someone else's misdemeanours. Really, an IP address is as good as any other, what goes on behind it should surely be the test? An academic point, really ;) since Jeff indicates the problem lays with my header 'to:' field bearing the mail-archive address rather than my list address. I'm not sure I can change that, will have to do some digging, but that's fair enough. I very much appreciate the mail-archive service. Regards Tony Sleep - http://www.halftone.co.uk _______________________________________________ Gossip mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mail-archive.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gossip
