> > Being heavy-handed isn't the same thing as being Nazi-ish. No matter how > > heavy handed they might be, the real-world equivalent of black-lists are > > boycotts, not Fascists and dictators. > > Nothing against heavy handed measures against Spammers, but hey .. being > counted off as acceptable collateral damage ain't exactly funny. ;o)
I've been there, once, long ago. During the last days of many MTAs defaulting to allowing relaying, my network was blacklisted by ORBS and MAPS. (My boss also recieved a pissed off message from a high-up admin at SpewUNet. We laughed.) Back then it was a rational thing - they sent us an email explaining the situation, we upgraded sendmail, we asked them to retest. We were out of the lists in two days. I wonder why that kind of rationality hasn't continued. I guess it's perhaps not as effective as BGPing macromedia to /dev/null at the drop of a hat, but... it just makes more sense. I've always wondered about the blacklisting thing - you know the director of the EFF runs an open relay? It's run with full knowledge that it can be abused by spammers. It's there for the purpose of sending anonymous email. Thank god for SA, I suppose. Ross Vandegrift [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
