On Wed, 30 Jul 2003 14:00:44 -0600 - Andrew Mathews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote the following Re: Re: spam issues
>-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >Hash: SHA1 > >ronnie gauthier wrote: >| I've had it with spam, RBL's bite. So what to do? >| I have taken drastic measures. I wish others would follow suit. We >could kill >| spam in short order. How? I have got fed up with yahoo a while back >and blocked >| them. A while back I had a rash of spam from comcast.com and mail them and >| complained heavily, it stopped. Until this week. Now comcast is blocked. >| When I say blocked I dont mean filtered I mean blocked from all my >domains and >| clients mail servers. FSCK to domains with a lax attitude about spam, >let them >| eat bounces. >| _______________________________________________ >| Linux-users mailing list >| [EMAIL PROTECTED] >| Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> >http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users > >I attended the USENIX conference in San Antonio last month for the >Sendmail seminar. Eric Allman (the author of Sendmail) said that in the >near future we will see email become fragmentary and crippled due to the >neglect by ISP's to adequately punish the spammers they're providing >services to, or condoning through their inaction. More and more people >and companies will flatly refuse any mail from entire netblocks or >domains which will cripple the ability of legitimate users to >communicate with the rest of the world. The key is to inform those >people of the exact reasoning why their ISP is "bad" and encourage them >to use someone legitimate. If the ISP has no customers because they're >blacklisted, the problem will become theirs, instead of ours. >Personally, I encourage the use of blacklists, provided they're >responsible, act quickly, and provide unbiased services that allow a >problem to be fixed and remove the offender as quickly as they list >them. Somewhere between allowing it all, and blocking it all is the >happy medium, and it's going to be different for everyone. > I realize that I'm not alone in blocking domains and that it is mainly an act of total frustration and completely unfair to the unculpable user. OTOH, as I stated before, one domain...big deal...one hundred...BIG DEAL. blocked by one domain and you will beleive your ISP when they say something wrong on the other end. But if 50% of everything they send gets refused...then, well, the ISP cannot say it is an outside problem any longer. That is a huge incentive not to host spammers or to tolerate misuse of their system. _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
