Scott, I meant the disgruntled employee who still has a hellish job (where the great majority of the disgruntled always are, even if you don't hear about them as much).
>If the company can't figure out who it was from their logs, they >deserve to be in DSBL (since they are giving access to people they >can't identify). I have to disagree. They'd be entered into DSBL because one person Telnetted into their mail server from some random machines. Large companies have thousands of machines unattended at any time, but there are very few things you can do as *quickly* as a mail session to get the company internationally blacklisted. Or one person grabbed a DHCP address on their laptop, did the deed, and put it back in his knapsack. Someone doesn't even need to send through the mailserver at all, but from any old box which is NATted to the same external IP. Try catching that one in the logs! Sure, egress filtering should be in place, DHCP scopes should be restricted, all laptop NICs should be confiscated but (rounding up) they pretty much aren't. And I don't think that should get someone's mailservers blacklisted. Now, one could argue that *anyone with disgruntled employees* who doesn't deal with underlying workplace issues should be blacklisted--which to some degree I agree with--but that obviously isn't the goal of DSBL. > The main flaw seems to be that anyone can create a Hotmail account > and send one of these E-mails to DSBL, and get the Hotmail servers > listed. So DSBL may need to test servers that connect to it in order > to have a very-close-to-foolproof system. Test them for what, though? For being free webmail services? Is there an RFC for that? :) (Ron, does killerwebmail.com go out from the same IP as your corporate mail?) Sandy Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be removed from this list. An Archive of this list is available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Please visit the Knowledge Base for answers to frequently asked questions: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
