Re: It's a fine line...

2007-11-07 Thread mouss
Olivier Nicole wrote: >> meant there >> is no dns list for organizations. something like >> # lookup_company_by_ip 192.0.2.1 >> > > Reverse DNS on the contacting mail gateway? > that only gives the domain name. but a single organization may have multiple domains, and in many cases it is h

Re: It's a fine line...

2007-11-07 Thread Jonas Eckerman
Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: The advise I've seen (iirc it was in rfc-ignorant lists) was not to allow send the mail to abuse and non-abuse mailboxes together, e.g. when it's sent to abuse mailbox, reject rcpt to:non-abuse mailboxes with temporary error and vice versa. This is what we're impl

Re: It's a fine line...

2007-11-06 Thread Olivier Nicole
> Do the math. 50% of the spam (if that is indeed the case) is very low, > considering that the US generates a much larger percentage of the total > Internet traffic than just half. The 50% figure was given recently, was that by someone of ICANN or APNIC, I don't remember. > In any case, you m

Re: It's a fine line...

2007-11-06 Thread Olivier Nicole
> uu, by default, all organizations get to specifically (or not) define > network policies on their own networks. Exactly. Only I expected subscribers to SA list to be a bit wiser than lambda policy designer. > Crackers go after easier targets to abuse and the rich ruleth over the poor > and

Re: It's a fine line...

2007-11-06 Thread Olivier Nicole
> meant there > is no dns list for organizations. something like > # lookup_company_by_ip 192.0.2.1 Reverse DNS on the contacting mail gateway? Bests, olivier

Re: It's a fine line...

2007-11-06 Thread Olivier Nicole
> actually, there are DNS lists (and I don't call them blacklists) who list > countries. I've seen some people reporting that they use them to block spam > from those countries... True, GeoIP does that for example. Olivier

Re: It's a fine line...

2007-11-06 Thread mouss
Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: >> Olivier Nicole wrote: >> >>> The attitude goes by organisation, not by country. >>> > > On 06.11.07 08:37, mouss wrote: > >> "we" know almost all countries. I don't even know a small part of the >> organizations in my own town. and there is no DNS equ

Re: It's a fine line...

2007-11-06 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 06.11.07 07:57, Philip Prindeville wrote: > However, you don't want to mail to the abuse mailbox to see if it gets > delivered, and then if it bounced, mail to the OrgTech mailbox > instead... because that's too much wasted time... So you To: the abuse > mailbox on the odd chance that it exi

Re: It's a fine line...

2007-11-06 Thread Philip Prindeville
Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: The advise I've seen (iirc it was in rfc-ignorant lists) was not to allow send the mail to abuse and non-abuse mailboxes together, e.g. when it's sent to abuse mailbox, reject rcpt to:non-abuse mailboxes with temporary error and vice versa. The result should be, once

Re: It's a fine line...

2007-11-06 Thread Philip Prindeville
Olivier Nicole wrote: It's not a matter of cultural imperialism, if that's what you're getting at. It's an acknowledgment of the importance of the "rule of law" in cyberspace. Except that I don't think it is anything close to a rule of law, but rather a sign of short view. As I said, I d

Re: It's a fine line...

2007-11-06 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 05.11.07 09:20, Philip Prindeville wrote: > Between the truly clueless administrator, and those that feign ignorance > to cover up their implicit approval of spammers... > > What do you do in the case where someone is filtering deliveries to > their "abuse" mailbox? (Like 99% of mail sent th

RE: It's a fine line...

2007-11-06 Thread Robert - elists
> > But hey, that is a too big cut from Internet, so in some way it is > cultural imperialism. > > Bests, > > Olivier Oliver uu, by default, all organizations get to specifically (or not) define network policies on their own networks. Like it or not that is the way it is. I don't know

Re: It's a fine line...

2007-11-06 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
> Olivier Nicole wrote: > > The attitude goes by organisation, not by country. On 06.11.07 08:37, mouss wrote: > "we" know almost all countries. I don't even know a small part of the > organizations in my own town. and there is no DNS equivalent of whois. actually, there are DNS lists (and I don'

Re: It's a fine line...

2007-11-05 Thread mouss
Olivier Nicole wrote: >> It's not a matter of cultural imperialism, if that's what you're getting at. >> >> It's an acknowledgment of the importance of the "rule of law" in cyberspace. >> > > Except that I don't think it is anything close to a rule of law, but > rather a sign of short view. >

Re: It's a fine line...

2007-11-05 Thread Olivier Nicole
> It's not a matter of cultural imperialism, if that's what you're getting at. > > It's an acknowledgment of the importance of the "rule of law" in cyberspace. Except that I don't think it is anything close to a rule of law, but rather a sign of short view. As I said, I doubt you ever got any sp

Re: It's a fine line...

2007-11-05 Thread Philip Prindeville
Olivier Nicole wrote: And not to point fingers, how to react with a narrow minded sysadmin that ban per IP? From my legitimate mail server in Thailand, that has never been blacklisted as far as I know: mail45: telnet mail.redfish-solutions.com 25 Trying 66.232.79.143... Connected to

Re: It's a fine line...

2007-11-05 Thread hamann . w
Hi, adding to the list, I recently came across domain contacts like [EMAIL PROTECTED] (not sure about the exact domain name) This "service" also refuses some mails, particularly those that are sent via one of the mail servers of german telecom and it is operated by verisign Wolfgang Hamann

Re: It's a fine line...

2007-11-05 Thread Olivier Nicole
And not to point fingers, how to react with a narrow minded sysadmin that ban per IP? >From my legitimate mail server in Thailand, that has never been blacklisted as far as I know: mail45: telnet mail.redfish-solutions.com 25 Trying 66.232.79.143... Connected to mail.redfish-solutions

Re: It's a fine line...

2007-11-05 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hi, > Between the truly clueless administrator, and those that feign ignorance > to cover up their implicit approval of spammers... > > What do you do in the case where someone is filtering deliveries to > their "abuse" mailbox? (Like 99% of mail sent there isn't going to > score positively..

Re: It's a fine line...

2007-11-05 Thread John D. Hardin
On Mon, 5 Nov 2007, Philip Prindeville wrote: > Well, Yahoo is a waste of time for other reasons, right? They > tell you that it doesn't come from their site... I generally don't get spam from Yahoo MTAs; most of my reporting is of fraud spams with yahoo contact addresses. -- John Hardin KA7O

Re: It's a fine line...

2007-11-05 Thread Evan Platt
At 12:54 PM 11/5/2007, Philip Prindeville wrote: Well, Yahoo is a waste of time for other reasons, right? They tell you that it doesn't come from their site... but to use the top-most Received: line's IP address, then to look that up on ARIN which... surprise! ... typically points to Ya

Re: It's a fine line...

2007-11-05 Thread Philip Prindeville
John D. Hardin wrote: On Mon, 5 Nov 2007, Steven Kurylo wrote: Philip Prindeville wrote: Between the truly clueless administrator, and those that feign ignorance to cover up their implicit approval of spammers... What do you do in the case where someone is filtering deliveries to th

Re: It's a fine line...

2007-11-05 Thread John D. Hardin
On Mon, 5 Nov 2007, Steven Kurylo wrote: > Philip Prindeville wrote: > > Between the truly clueless administrator, and those that feign > > ignorance to cover up their implicit approval of spammers... > > > > What do you do in the case where someone is filtering deliveries to > > their "abuse" m

Re: It's a fine line...

2007-11-05 Thread Philip Prindeville
Steven Kurylo wrote: Philip Prindeville wrote: Between the truly clueless administrator, and those that feign ignorance to cover up their implicit approval of spammers... What do you do in the case where someone is filtering deliveries to their "abuse" mailbox? (Like 99% of mail sent there i

Re: It's a fine line...

2007-11-05 Thread Steven Kurylo
Philip Prindeville wrote: Between the truly clueless administrator, and those that feign ignorance to cover up their implicit approval of spammers... What do you do in the case where someone is filtering deliveries to their "abuse" mailbox? (Like 99% of mail sent there isn't going to score p

It's a fine line...

2007-11-05 Thread Philip Prindeville
Between the truly clueless administrator, and those that feign ignorance to cover up their implicit approval of spammers... What do you do in the case where someone is filtering deliveries to their "abuse" mailbox? (Like 99% of mail sent there isn't going to score positively...) Sigh.