Danita Zanre wrote:
> Of course the real solution to this one is to get Spamcop to back off
> on this particular listing. I find it outrageous myself. Even in the US
> it's not always possible to get a fixed IP address in some locations for
> small businesses and outside the US it's often simply not available.
>
> Their rule seems to not care if you use a smart host to relay your mail
> through - we have verified that the "originating" address is the one
> that is blocked - so mail servers that 1) run on dynamically assigned
> addresses and 2) any mail server that has to get a new IP address no
> matter what the reason (just moving ISPs for example) is going to be hit
> by this rule. [...]
I read this with not a little irony (and bitterness) - the same could
be said for the Dynablock rule, if you ask me.
<soapbox>
I've been on the Internet (and its predecessor, the ARPANET) since 1986.
I've had a home IP address on the 'Net (first via PPP through my work
machine, then ADSL/cable) since 1993.
I've been using DynDNS.ORG pretty much since they started.
I've been running mail servers (Sendmail, and now Courier) since the
early 80's. I think I know how to run my own mail server properly, thank
you very much. I don't want my e-mail coming into my ISP, and I don't want
my e-mail going out through my ISP.
You can guess the rest. I'm in Dynablock's address range (Comcast)
so I get blocked by AOL, RoadRunner, and any host that uses SpamAssassin
and ties into the Dynablock RBL. While I'm sure the Dynablock RBL was
instigated with best intents (I'm well aware that there's thousands of
unwashed PC SPAM generators on dynamic ISP ranges for every one of me),
but why can't the list be modified to not include people with, say,
*.DynDNS.ORG addresses? Grrrrr ...
</soapbox>
[ObSAtalk: Since automatic Bayes expiry refuses to work for me, is there
any harm in running "sa-learn --force-expire" every so often from cron?
Should I do a "sh /etc/init.d/spamd stop" (on Solaris) and "start" before
and after the "sa-learn --force-expire", just in case?]
- Greg
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