On Sun December 13 2009, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > I've received spam to my inbox from all the ranges below. Liquid Web > has 8 ranges assigned by ARIN, and I've received spam from four of them. > I don't f*ck around when it comes to spam coming from no-name web > hosting companies. I usually smtp block their entire set of ranges post > haste. They're _web_ hosting companies. Any email they emit is going > to be from hobbyists (you) or, most often, spammers. I insta-block VPS > companies and the like after the first spam I receive from their IP > space. Why leave the door open for such outfits? No legit email is > ever going to come from them, just spam and network level attacks. except mine?
> Just > about every OP on the spam-l list has perma blocked the Amazon EC2 cloud > due to spam. Same for the RackSpace cloud services, although I think > they've started to clean that up. I don't know what I singed up for, but my email amount of S P A M has gone through the ROOF in the last few weeks! I used to send 5-10 emails A DAY to smapcop, but then I got to thinking that maybe MY emails out would classify ME as a spammer, so I stopped. > > Colo a server with a reputable ISP. That's the best way to host your > own mail. If that's to expensive for your taste, host it at home on a > business class dsl line. You usually get a static IP or 5 depending on > the provider, and the better ones allow you custom PTRs for your IPs. A > matching PTR/hostname goes a _LONG_ in preventing rejections. I'm > currently hosting my Lenny/Postfix MX server on a residential adsl line > with a static IP, and I have a generic PTR. So far I'm not seeing any > deliverability issues--I've been lucky. ;) my ISP is Atlantic Nexus, atnex.net , NOT AT&T/Comcast, or roadrunner. They also can give me a static IP if I ask for one. Atlanta is the nearest place that does colo, and that is 1 1/2 hours & 80 miles from me, not real convenient. I'd rather just do it from home. -- Paul Cartwright Registered Linux user # 367800 Registered Ubuntu User #12459 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
