In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Chuq Von Rospach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>At 1:48 PM -0400 4/23/99, Nick Simicich wrote:
>
>> I believe that, in the dim dark past, someone did run a scan and notify
>> postmasters of open relays.
>
>dorkslayer was one. He was finally shut down by his ISP after
>refusing to modify his procedures (mostly because he put the blocks
>in place first and notified later, if I remember correctly. His ISP
>wanted him to send out warnings and if it wasn't fixed after some
>period of time, then add the block. he refused).
No, actually, he complied 100%.
But thwt wasn't enough to stop all complaints from going to his pro-
vider, so demonstrating a distinct and utter lack of backcome, BCTel
finally told him (Alan Hodgson) to vacate his IP addresses (which
he subsequently did).
>Last I heard, it was still shut down.
The dorkslayers domain name and its associated open relays DNS zone is
in the process of being brought back to life.... by the IMRSS project.
(We own the domain name now.)
>He actually nailed one of my sites, which caused
>me three days of craziness tracking down the relay and fixing it
>(turned out to be a weird sendmail config thingie... he was right,
>which caused me no end of irritation given my position on spam and
>stuff...).
>
>It also point out just how few sites actually subscribed to his
>blocking service. It only impacted two sites with subscribers on it.
A lot of sites can't use these kinds of systems if it means potentially
rejecting some valid non-spam mail. But I solved that problem. You
can now have your cake and eat it too:
http://www.imrss.org/using-notify.html
I am running with this myself here now. Great fun!
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