Noel Butler wrote: > On Mon, 2012-09-17 at 10:52 -0400, Kris Deugau wrote: > >> 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. >> > > As an ISP Email admin I applied the same rules evenly, to end users > and hosting. in early 2000's, hrmm, or was it late 90's, we > outright blocked AOL for some 4 months at one point, but, not being > in the U.S. that was an easy ride, even though AOL did have a lot > of dialups out here then.
After a look around http://www.ausics.net, it looks more like a community service project similar to Ottawa's "National Capital Freenet" (http://www.ncf.ca) rather than a full-on commercial ISP; that *does* give you more freedom to impose more aggressive rules. I see my job as spam filter administrator as making sure than anything people really want to receive reaches their mailbox (no matter how bizarre - although when someone reports something really spammy as nonspam, I *do* ask if they really want to receive mail like that), while blocking as much of the rest of the junk as possible. -kgd
