On Tue, 21 Sep 1999, Dave Sill wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> >(My pobox.com address, on the other hand, gets plenty of spam, because
> >pobox's antispam methods are very poor. I only wish they used DUL,
> >which would get rid of most of the spam from that direction.)
>
> It's not good enough for an antispam method to simply be effective, it
> should also be selective. The DUL blocks non-relaying, nonspammers,
> just because it doesn't like the looks of their domain name...the
I thought it blocked known IP blocks of dialup ports?
> baby/bathwater scenario. But the War on Spam, like the War on Drugs
> and the War on Terrorism cares little about collateral damage like
> me.
I cannot imagine what damage is done by asking a dialup user to send email
out through his provider's internal relay.
