Rafael said: > What bothers me in all of this is that Debian lists are managed so poorly > to let this happen. I subscribed to 6 debian mailing lists recently, > dropped two right away because there was so much spam I've never seen > before. Today I received 8 messages related to that f*ng crap from Africa > or whatever place out there through deb mailing lists. I haven't seen that > much spam on any other mailing list in over a year.
I believe that it's an intentional policy not to reject anything on the grounds that it _may_ be a valid poster, and guilty because of some minor configuration error should not mean automated lockout. > Email should never be accepted from poorly (or intensionaly baddly) setup > servers that do not follow RFCs. > > Received: (qmail 17581 invoked by uid 38); 1 Jul 2002 11:54:29 -0000 > X-Envelope-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Received: (qmail 14664 invoked from network); 1 Jul 2002 11:52:03 -0000 > Received: from master.debian.org (65.125.64.135) > by murphy.debian.org with SMTP; 1 Jul 2002 11:52:03 -0000 > Received: from (ok62977.com) [213.181.64.226] > by master.debian.org with smtp (Exim 3.12 1 (Debian)) > id 17Ozil-0003W2-00; Mon, 01 Jul 2002 06:51:58 -0500 > From: "Mr.Muyiwa Ige" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Assuming the spam came from 213.181.64.226 it would be very easy to reject > it based on the fact that there is no RR in DNS for that IP. I have a /28 at work, small enough that I don't get the run reverse DNS myself, the ISP provides it. If I want to make changes, I fax them a list of hostnames and IPs, and they update it. Sometimes they even remember to increment the serial number. Occasionally they decide to blow away a section of the zone file because someone made a mistake. Should all my email be refused by offsite servers while my ISP is being stupid? Even though it's otherwise correctly formed? I don't think so. Liberal in what you accept is the catch phrase here. Bron. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
