On Wed, 20 Sep 2000 12:19:58 PDT, kmself@ix.netcom.com writes: >On Wed, Sep 20, 2000 at 04:21:42PM +0200, Robert Waldner ([EMAIL PROTECTED] >at) wrote: >> Also the RBL is used throughout the internet for *blackholing* all=20 >> IP-connectivity from spammers. If you misconfigured your MTA (or=20 >> simply chose a, say, "broken", one), what would you say if you were=20 >> cut off from ~ 40 % of the internet, as would be the effect if you=20 >> were RBLed? > >A few dozen idiots is tolerable. A few dozen thousands of idiots gets >to be a real problem.
Again, the RBL is mostly used to block *all IP*-connectivity, so that´s like shooting with cannons on bugs, blocking SMTP-connectivity would be much cleaner imho. Allowing for the needed granularity, there should be a "BML" (Broken Mta List), which one could use or not to his liking...who volunteers? Also note that none of this options would solve our current problem, because my.netvigators bounces get delivered via the list, and I don´t want to block murphy.debian.org ;-) so whatever the method, it would have to be used there, not on our ends. &rw -- / Robert Waldner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Phone: +43 1 89933 0 Fax x533 \ \ KPNQwest/AT tech staff | Diefenbachg. 35 A-1150 Wien /
