According to Webster: Diatribe: a bitter and abusive speech or writing
Len, that sounds a lot closer to what you are doing than Scott. As soon as Scott posts a message you disagree with you jump in with teeth bared and wit sharpened. Anyone other than Scott and you simply respond in your usual curt manner. It doesn't have to be incorrect for it to be FUD, and just because you think it is incorrect doesn't make it FUD. The language you use and the manner of your personal attacks DOES make what you do FUD. Most of this list respects what you have to say based on your experience and helpfulness. It is the same with Scott. Len, **YOUR** abusive and virulent FUD helps no one. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Len Conrad Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2005 9:58 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] reverse DNS >I was afraid I was going to have to keep the FUD, lies, and bogus >ideology to myself. you failed >>>Fortunately, decent anti-spam software won't block your mail, so this >>>is a non-issue for most people. >> >>MXs getting bombed from infected PCs on subscriber access network is >>HUGE issue for every MX on the planet, 30% - 40% of all abuse traffic >>is from these networks, 99+% of traffic from these networks is abuse. > >And, at 1 billion spams a day, that's at least 300,000,000 E-mails a >day coming from those networks. At 99+% of traffic from those networks >being abuse, that's up to 3,000,000 legitimate E-mails/day being blocked. 99+% does not equal 99%, but it's close enough for Scott FUD For every IP of a legit MTA with a PTR in subscriber style, there must be 1000 IPs with infected machines doing direct-to-MX abuse. 0.001 of subscriber IPs are legit mail servers. As small as that is, there is another fractional multiplier. And whatever the fraction is, it's decreasing as many more new, infected subscribers are increasingly populating these networks world-wide, at much higher rate any increase in legit MTAs. In addition to the number of IPs is the msg volume. Anybody who is running a mailserver on a cable or DSL is almost always a small organization with a small volume 10's or 100's of outbound msgs per day. In comparison, an infected PC spewing abuse can send out 100's or 1000's of msgs per hour. Roughly, the volume of legit msgs vs abuse msgs is 0.001 of subscriber IPs are legit x .01 of total volume from subscriber networks = 0.00001 0.00001 of your 300,000,000 = 3000 legit msgs in 300,000,000 abusive msgs. And any MX that adopts a policy of blocking subscriber networks by PTR can easily identify its set of legit MTAs and whitelist them. A huge weakness of Imail/declude is that they can't block by PTR hostname. A huge weakness of declude is that they it wastes bandwidth, by accepting ALL msgs before they can be rejected. Totally insane, when the wasted bandwidth is often 8+ times greater than the legit mail/dns bandwidth of legit traffic. >> Probably over 90% of all infected mail is from these networks. > >So you can block 90% of viruses and 40% of spam in exchange for >blocking millions of legitimate E-mails. Total FUD, actually total BS. You're using "%" (apples) vs "millions" (oranges) to make your bogus point, which is no point at all. >Like C/R, it is FUSSP (see >http://www.rhyolite.com/anti-spam/you-might-be.html ). It works great >on one machine under a given set of conditions FUD again. Because subscriber networks are so universally infected and abusive, blocking by PTR hostname is effective for all MXs. >, but fails (a billion legitimate E-mails blocked as spam each year) if >everyone does it. FUD. Blocking by subscriber networks by PTR hostname is extremely effective and efficient. Len _____________________________________________________________________ http://IMGate.MEIway.com : free anti-spam gateway, runs on 1000's of sites To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
