Re: On hub.freebsd.org refusing to talk to dialups

[John Polstra]

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Mark Murray  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> The RBL is great! There is a teensy bit of colateral damage, but not
> so much that I worry about it. Here in ZA, our USP traffic provider
> (Teleglobe) uses RBL, thus absolving us of the responsibility. Since
> we started getting this "cleanfeed", spam has dropped dramatically.

Strange.  I use the RBL on my mail server here, but it really doesn't
accomplish much.  In the past 8 days it has blocked only 3 distinct
spam e-mails, and that's typical.  Yet I still receive an average of
5-10 spam mails in my mailbox every day.  (*Must* *stop* *fist* *of*
*death*!)  A few random manual checks seem to indicate that the DUL
would do much better for me.

These days the RBL is more of a preventative measure than a blocking
measure.  It has already forced most open relays to tighten up.

John
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  John Polstra                                               [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  John D. Polstra & Co., Inc.                        Seattle, Washington USA
  "No matter how cynical I get, I just can't keep up."        -- Nora Ephron


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