At 12:48 PM -0500 6/24/01, Michael Croft  imposed structure on a 
stream of electrons, yielding:
>Using 1.8b8.
>
>So, I have the following entry in my BlackList Addresses
>207.75.48.0-207.75.50.255
>
>My user recevied the following spam.
>
>I thought that the blacklist would follow the IP chain backwards.  Did I
>misunderstand?

yep. SIMS' blacklist only works on the immediate connection. It 
cannot track back through the prior Received headers to find original 
sources.

>  Do I have to block every open relay to prevent the luser
>with the Michican dialup from getting through?

Unfortunately, yes.


-- 
Bill Cole
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