Re: It's a fine line...

2007-11-07 Thread Jonas Eckerman
Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: The advise I've seen (iirc it was in rfc-ignorant lists) was not to allow send the mail to abuse and non-abuse mailboxes together, e.g. when it's sent to abuse mailbox, reject rcpt to:non-abuse mailboxes with temporary error and vice versa. This is what we're

Re: It's a fine line...

2007-11-07 Thread mouss
Olivier Nicole wrote: meant there is no dns list for organizations. something like # lookup_company_by_ip 192.0.2.1 Reverse DNS on the contacting mail gateway? that only gives the domain name. but a single organization may have multiple domains, and in many cases it is hard to

Re: It's a fine line...

2007-11-06 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
Olivier Nicole wrote: The attitude goes by organisation, not by country. On 06.11.07 08:37, mouss wrote: we know almost all countries. I don't even know a small part of the organizations in my own town. and there is no DNS equivalent of whois. actually, there are DNS lists (and I don't call

RE: It's a fine line...

2007-11-06 Thread Robert - elists
But hey, that is a too big cut from Internet, so in some way it is cultural imperialism. Bests, Olivier Oliver uu, by default, all organizations get to specifically (or not) define network policies on their own networks. Like it or not that is the way it is. I don't know of too

Re: It's a fine line...

2007-11-06 Thread Philip Prindeville
Olivier Nicole wrote: It's not a matter of cultural imperialism, if that's what you're getting at. It's an acknowledgment of the importance of the rule of law in cyberspace. Except that I don't think it is anything close to a rule of law, but rather a sign of short view. As I said, I

Re: It's a fine line...

2007-11-06 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 05.11.07 09:20, Philip Prindeville wrote: Between the truly clueless administrator, and those that feign ignorance to cover up their implicit approval of spammers... What do you do in the case where someone is filtering deliveries to their abuse mailbox? (Like 99% of mail sent there

Re: It's a fine line...

2007-11-06 Thread Philip Prindeville
Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: The advise I've seen (iirc it was in rfc-ignorant lists) was not to allow send the mail to abuse and non-abuse mailboxes together, e.g. when it's sent to abuse mailbox, reject rcpt to:non-abuse mailboxes with temporary error and vice versa. The result should be,

Re: It's a fine line...

2007-11-06 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 06.11.07 07:57, Philip Prindeville wrote: However, you don't want to mail to the abuse mailbox to see if it gets delivered, and then if it bounced, mail to the OrgTech mailbox instead... because that's too much wasted time... So you To: the abuse mailbox on the odd chance that it

Re: It's a fine line...

2007-11-06 Thread mouss
Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: Olivier Nicole wrote: The attitude goes by organisation, not by country. On 06.11.07 08:37, mouss wrote: we know almost all countries. I don't even know a small part of the organizations in my own town. and there is no DNS equivalent of whois.

Re: It's a fine line...

2007-11-06 Thread Olivier Nicole
actually, there are DNS lists (and I don't call them blacklists) who list countries. I've seen some people reporting that they use them to block spam from those countries... True, GeoIP does that for example. Olivier

Re: It's a fine line...

2007-11-06 Thread Olivier Nicole
uu, by default, all organizations get to specifically (or not) define network policies on their own networks. Exactly. Only I expected subscribers to SA list to be a bit wiser than lambda policy designer. Crackers go after easier targets to abuse and the rich ruleth over the poor and so

Re: It's a fine line...

2007-11-06 Thread Olivier Nicole
meant there is no dns list for organizations. something like # lookup_company_by_ip 192.0.2.1 Reverse DNS on the contacting mail gateway? Bests, olivier

Re: It's a fine line...

2007-11-06 Thread Olivier Nicole
Do the math. 50% of the spam (if that is indeed the case) is very low, considering that the US generates a much larger percentage of the total Internet traffic than just half. The 50% figure was given recently, was that by someone of ICANN or APNIC, I don't remember. In any case, you

It's a fine line...

2007-11-05 Thread Philip Prindeville
Between the truly clueless administrator, and those that feign ignorance to cover up their implicit approval of spammers... What do you do in the case where someone is filtering deliveries to their abuse mailbox? (Like 99% of mail sent there isn't going to score positively...) Sigh.

Re: It's a fine line...

2007-11-05 Thread Steven Kurylo
Philip Prindeville wrote: Between the truly clueless administrator, and those that feign ignorance to cover up their implicit approval of spammers... What do you do in the case where someone is filtering deliveries to their abuse mailbox? (Like 99% of mail sent there isn't going to score

Re: It's a fine line...

2007-11-05 Thread Philip Prindeville
Steven Kurylo wrote: Philip Prindeville wrote: Between the truly clueless administrator, and those that feign ignorance to cover up their implicit approval of spammers... What do you do in the case where someone is filtering deliveries to their abuse mailbox? (Like 99% of mail sent there

Re: It's a fine line...

2007-11-05 Thread John D. Hardin
On Mon, 5 Nov 2007, Steven Kurylo wrote: Philip Prindeville wrote: Between the truly clueless administrator, and those that feign ignorance to cover up their implicit approval of spammers... What do you do in the case where someone is filtering deliveries to their abuse mailbox?

Re: It's a fine line...

2007-11-05 Thread Philip Prindeville
John D. Hardin wrote: On Mon, 5 Nov 2007, Steven Kurylo wrote: Philip Prindeville wrote: Between the truly clueless administrator, and those that feign ignorance to cover up their implicit approval of spammers... What do you do in the case where someone is filtering deliveries to

Re: It's a fine line...

2007-11-05 Thread John D. Hardin
On Mon, 5 Nov 2007, Philip Prindeville wrote: Well, Yahoo is a waste of time for other reasons, right? They tell you that it doesn't come from their site... I generally don't get spam from Yahoo MTAs; most of my reporting is of fraud spams with yahoo contact addresses. -- John Hardin

Re: It's a fine line...

2007-11-05 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hi, Between the truly clueless administrator, and those that feign ignorance to cover up their implicit approval of spammers... What do you do in the case where someone is filtering deliveries to their abuse mailbox? (Like 99% of mail sent there isn't going to score positively...) If

Re: It's a fine line...

2007-11-05 Thread Olivier Nicole
And not to point fingers, how to react with a narrow minded sysadmin that ban per IP? From my legitimate mail server in Thailand, that has never been blacklisted as far as I know: mailon45: telnet mail.redfish-solutions.com 25 Trying 66.232.79.143... Connected to

Re: It's a fine line...

2007-11-05 Thread hamann . w
Hi, adding to the list, I recently came across domain contacts like [EMAIL PROTECTED] (not sure about the exact domain name) This service also refuses some mails, particularly those that are sent via one of the mail servers of german telecom and it is operated by verisign Wolfgang Hamann

Re: It's a fine line...

2007-11-05 Thread Philip Prindeville
Olivier Nicole wrote: And not to point fingers, how to react with a narrow minded sysadmin that ban per IP? From my legitimate mail server in Thailand, that has never been blacklisted as far as I know: mailon45: telnet mail.redfish-solutions.com 25 Trying 66.232.79.143... Connected

Re: It's a fine line...

2007-11-05 Thread Olivier Nicole
It's not a matter of cultural imperialism, if that's what you're getting at. It's an acknowledgment of the importance of the rule of law in cyberspace. Except that I don't think it is anything close to a rule of law, but rather a sign of short view. As I said, I doubt you ever got any spam

Re: It's a fine line...

2007-11-05 Thread mouss
Olivier Nicole wrote: It's not a matter of cultural imperialism, if that's what you're getting at. It's an acknowledgment of the importance of the rule of law in cyberspace. Except that I don't think it is anything close to a rule of law, but rather a sign of short view. As I said, I