Re: [Nanog-futures] blacklists getting out of hand?

2007-12-02 Thread Rich Kulawiec
On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 05:14:05PM -0800, Lynda wrote: Yeah, no surprise from me. Personally, I don't much care for blacklists. I find them a bit heavy handed, and I think they aren't effective. Well...if I may, let me mumble about a few things. ('Cause it beats going for a run in the sleet.

Re: [Nanog-futures] blacklists getting out of hand?

2007-12-02 Thread Gadi Evron
Another point to this good list is: Without blacklists such as the SBL we would no longer have email today. That's not sensationalism, it's fact. Two main reasons: 1. Spam over-whelms servers incoming. 2. Spam over-whelms server outgoing. Thank you, Gadi. On Sun, 2 Dec 2007, Rich

[Nanog-futures] blacklists getting out of hand?

2007-11-28 Thread Lynda
I'm hoping that this just gets through. For two or three years, I've been relaying all deaddrop.org email through pair.com, which has apparently made it onto mail-abuse's blacklists. Unfortunately, it joins gmail, which is my usual backup. I'm afraid to even try my old rocketmail account.

Re: [Nanog-futures] blacklists getting out of hand?

2007-11-28 Thread Christopher Morrow
On Nov 28, 2007 12:30 PM, Lynda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Could I just send the email from a local server? Sure, but the ability to filter spam for this particular domain is high on my list, and I use pair's servers to do so, before I ever see anything. It isn't an easy question, and I know it