One final point here, I know I, and I'm sure many of you, have seen or come into contact with infected exchange servers....on static ip addresses. The fact that it's static, or in fact, a business connection, speaks not a thing for the competence of the administrator, or the security of the server. My point before was this: my ip in no way says you should trust me, I can be infected and misconfigured on a static ip as a dynamic one. Also, I'm being penalized for microsoft's inability to engineer and distribute a secure os. You have every right to block whatever address ranges you want, and when I get the bounce, I'll add you to my transport file for postfix. All else, I'll manage the queue myself.
On Tuesday 17 May 2005 06:48 am, Bart Silverstrim wrote: > On May 16, 2005, at 5:43 PM, Dennis Peterson wrote: > > Most of the spam I've gotten the last three days is from comcast.net. > > Apparently they allow their customers to send out to port 25. They > > should > > lock that down so that spam goes out through their own servers so they > > can > > feel the pain when they are blacklisted for incompetence. If you need > > to > > run your own stand-alone mail service you should pay the price for the > > privilege. > > To me, that price is learning how to do it right. Price isn't always > monetary. > > I wouldn't argue with the idea of having to tell your provider that you > need your particular connection unfiltered and leave it unfiltered > because you're setting up the server. > > I'm paying for the bandwidth of a connection. If anything you're > saving the ISP money in labor to maintain your mail spool, you're > saving them disk space, and you're saving them liability...because > you're willing to shoulder the burden yourself. The price here is > you're doing the administration, you're sacrificing your disk space, > and you're sacrificing the ability to complain to them when the disk > dies and there's not a backup and you don't have 24/7 connection > reliability, only a "reasonable" connection. > > It's kinda stupid to me that you'd save them some space and time and > liability and have to pay them for taking away a sliver of a headache, > if all you want is a connection...and you may even be one of the small > percentage that if you run the services yourself, you won't be on their > tech support line. Seems like that's the biggest "cost" for ISPs. For > people who are willing to learn and put work into maintaining it the > cost of getting a "business class" connection is so high > that...well...they'd have to be a business to get it. Or at least get > it and not subsist on bologna and Cheerios for meals. > > _______________________________________________ > http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-users.html -- John Jolet Technology Solutions Your On-Demand IT Department 512-762-0729 www.jolet.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-users.html
