In my case all Asian email is spam, or at least 99.99% of it, Im more than happy to block out large netblocks, indeed that is what I do via the access file for sendmail.
It would be good to improve my system to be more selective using rbl's, but an access list under sendmail seems to be the simplest given lack of docs to do much more. Simple answer is when asian ISP's stop allowing spammers or idiots on thier netblocks then other ISP's can be more selective. regards Thing -----Original Message----- From: Craig Sanders [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 20 August 2002 11:43 To: debian isp Subject: Re: failure notice (about relays.osirusoft.com) On Tue, Aug 20, 2002 at 01:24:04AM +0200, Marcin Sochacki wrote: > For me it's obvious that Jason is right about Osirusoft's list being > too restrictive about Asian hosts. Craig, please try to read the > message, which was repeated over and over by Jason: they block a huge > HK netblock, not only open relays. actually, it's jason lim who's claiming i'm only talking about open relays. i specifically stated "open relays and spam sources" several times. it suits his argument to ignore the spamhaus issue. for whatever reason, the osirusoft maintainer regards that particular ISP as a spam source and lists the entire netblock. if i had to guess, i'd say this is probably because they don't bother responding to or taking any action about spam complaints. it is SOP in the anti-spam community to regard such behaviour (or non-behaviour as the case may be) as evidence that the ISP isn't just a victim of spam but is an active and willing participant. in any case, it's his list he can set whatever policy he chooses. more to the point, nobody is forced to use it...it's entirely voluntary. > I live in Poland. I do get a lot of spam both from Asia and the > "West". I try to fight spam with all methods I find effective, but > avoiding false positives as much as I can. Assuming that all Asian > mail is spam is really unfair. that is only lim's unsubstantiated paranoid delusion. osirusoft does not block all asian mail. i use the osirusoft RBL. i receive a lot of mail from asian mail servers. my users who correspond with people in asia are not complaining about false positives from asian servers. craig -- craig sanders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Fabricati Diem, PVNC. -- motto of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
