Rich Kulawiec wrote (on Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 08:25:20AM -0400): > On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 08:38:17AM -0300, jim deleskie wrote: > > As to his decision to block Gmail (or any other freemail provider), > everyone with sufficient knowledge in the field knows that these > operations are prolific and habitual sources of spam (via multiple > vectors, not just SMTP; Google accounts for more Usenet spam hitting > my filters than all other sources combined). It's thus not at all > unreasonable for some operations to revoke (some oor all of) their > privileges by way of self-defense.
And, even if it *is* unreasonable, well, his network, his rules, right? "I block all SMTP traffic from IPV4 servers (clients?) which have odd numbers in the third octet." might not be a good idea for a high volume mail server with clients, but if it's your network, go for it. -- _________________________________________ Nachman Yaakov Ziskind, FSPA, LLM aw...@ziskind.us Attorney and Counselor-at-Law http://ziskind.us Economic Group Pension Services http://egps.com Actuaries and Employee Benefit Consultants
