SIMS 1.8b9d14 running on MacOS 8.1, 68K machine SPEWS (spews.relays.osirusoft.com) is included on our RBL server list. About a week ago, SPEWS added several of the Yahoo mail servers to its list. As a result, much (most?) of the mail sent by Yahoo!Groups is getting blocked. Other Yahoo mail is being blocked as well.
We have also seen examples of blocked mail that is clearly spam, judging from the same mail being sent to multiple addresses that are known *not* to be subscribed to any groups. The volume of this spam is not large, though. Given a choice between a little spam and losing a lot of desirable mail, we'd like to white list the Yahoo servers. Although I'm interested in commentary about SPEWS decision to list Yahoo (justifiable in that spam *is* originating there, but questionable in terms of disservice to a very large user community) ... my real question regards white lists and white listing. I've set up a few router entries of the form <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> = [EMAIL PROTECTED] to allow some incoming groups mail, but this method is impractical on a large scale. It looks as though the Yahoo mail server IP addresses *could* be put on the "client hosts" list, which would white list them, but this would also introduce an undesirable security hole. Are there other options in SIMS to white list specific servers or IP ranges? Something I've missed in the documentation? Thanks. ############################################################# This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To switch to the INDEX mode, E-mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Send administrative queries to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
