Noel Butler wrote: > It is the exact same approach we all take and should take to all > spammers, if mail.foobar.com was hitting you with shitloads of > spam from someuser.example.com, someotheruser.example.net and so > on, you take out mail.foobar.com, because THEY are the mongrels > that connect to your server and pass on the tripe.
Some of us do not have the luxury of acting even the slightest little bit of a BOFH. I see more spam[1] from any one of Hotmail, Yahoo, or GMail than I do coming through the whole set of email service providers I've IDed (both email-hosting and bulkmailers) of all stripes. As an ISP mail admin, I **CANNOT** afford to block legitimate mail from any source, and if I see a report that a legitimate mail was blocked by any local rules or DNSBL data, I change the local rule or delete the offending local DNSBL entry ASAP. -kgd [1] At least, so far as "messages reported as missed spam by customers". I don't keep watch on the stuff that gets tagged.
