Re: [SAtalk] useful blackholes

2002-10-03 Thread Robin Lynn Frank
On Thursday 03 October 2002 08:48, Mariano Absatz wrote: > El 2 Oct 2002 a las 16:13, Rossz Vamos-Wentworth escribió: > > > I use TMDA and simply add to its blacklist_wildcards list > > > entries like *@=.kn (bye-bye North Korea) I currently limit its use > > > in this way to rogue states. > >

Re: [SAtalk] useful blackholes

2002-10-03 Thread Mariano Absatz
El 2 Oct 2002 a las 16:13, Rossz Vamos-Wentworth escribió: > > I use TMDA and simply add to its blacklist_wildcards list > > entries like *@=.kn (bye-bye North Korea) I currently limit its use > > in this way to rogue states. > > Doesn't that method filter after receipt? Also, doesn't it let

Re: [SAtalk] useful blackholes

2002-10-02 Thread Robin Lynn Frank
On Wednesday 02 October 2002 17:13, Rossz Vamos-Wentworth wrote: > > I use TMDA and simply add to its blacklist_wildcards list > > entries like *@=.kn (bye-bye North Korea) I currently limit its use > in > > this way to rogue states. > > Doesn't that method filter after receipt? Also, doesn't i

Re: [SAtalk] useful blackholes

2002-10-02 Thread Bart Schaefer
On Wed, 2 Oct 2002, Rossz Vamos-Wentworth wrote: > (if SPEWS ran our justice system, it would be "better to convict 100 > innocents rather than let a single guilty person slip past"). It's more like barricading all the streets into a neighborhood until the neighbors (or the landlord) burn down t

Re: [SAtalk] useful blackholes

2002-10-02 Thread Rossz Vamos-Wentworth
> I use TMDA and simply add to its blacklist_wildcards list > entries like *@=.kn (bye-bye North Korea) I currently limit its use > in this way >to rogue states. Doesn't that method filter after receipt? Also, doesn't it let through forged headers? As I previously stated, I prefer to blo

Re: [SAtalk] useful blackholes

2002-10-02 Thread Robin Lynn Frank
On Wednesday 02 October 2002 13:17, Rossz Vamos-Wentworth wrote: > I didn't see all that much rhetoric. I'm not using the isp blocks, just > the cn-kr and nigeria list. Since it's a private mail server, I have the > advantage of being able to implement blocks of entire countries. I > couldn't

Re: [SAtalk] useful blackholes

2002-10-02 Thread mis
i agree with you, particularly now that i've counted that (off hours) 2/3 of the mail being delivered to a company whose firewalls i manage was graded as spam by sa. at the point we needed to add an extra machine purely for spam assassin, i decided to get serious about blocking, which i'd previou

Re: [SAtalk] useful blackholes

2002-10-02 Thread Rossz Vamos-Wentworth
> Useful resource? From the rhetoric on that site, I wouldn't use any > of the site's data without checking each entry first. I've been > looking at a number of RBL sites recently and have reluctantly come to > the conclusion that objectivity is not high on their list of things to > do. They gi

Re: [SAtalk] useful blackholes

2002-10-02 Thread Robin Lynn Frank
On Wednesday 02 October 2002 10:08, Simon Matthews wrote: > At 09:50 AM 10/2/02 -0800, Rossz Vamos-Wentworth wrote: > >I've always considered filtering spam as the last resort. I prefer > >blocking at the mta if at all possible. Here's a useful resource: > >http://www.blackholes.us/ > > Interest

Re: [SAtalk] useful blackholes

2002-10-02 Thread Robin Lynn Frank
On Wednesday 02 October 2002 10:50, Rossz Vamos-Wentworth wrote: > I've always considered filtering spam as the last resort. I prefer > blocking at the mta if at all possible. Here's a useful resource: > http://www.blackholes.us/ > > Rossz > Useful resource? From the rhetoric on that site, I wo

RE: [SAtalk] useful blackholes

2002-10-02 Thread Steve Thomas
PROTECTED] | [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Simon | Matthews | Sent: Wednesday, October 02, 2002 10:08 AM | To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Subject: Re: [SAtalk] useful blackholes | | | | | At 09:50 AM 10/2/02 -0800, Rossz Vamos-Wentworth wrote: | >I've always considered filterin

RE: [SAtalk] useful blackholes

2002-10-02 Thread Robert Strickler
with a couple whitelist entries. -Original Message- From: Simon Matthews [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, October 02, 2002 12:08 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [SAtalk] useful blackholes At 09:50 AM 10/2/02 -0800, Rossz Vamos-Wentworth wrote: >I

Re: [SAtalk] useful blackholes

2002-10-02 Thread Simon Matthews
At 09:50 AM 10/2/02 -0800, Rossz Vamos-Wentworth wrote: >I've always considered filtering spam as the last resort. I prefer >blocking at the mta if at all possible. Here's a useful resource: >http://www.blackholes.us/ Interesting, but one of my company's mailservers is listed in the XO bloc