spam issues

[Matthew Carpenter]

On Wed, 30 Jul 2003 18:36:04 -0500
ronnie gauthier <ronnieg at chartermi.net> wrote:


> I realize that I'm not alone in blocking domains and that it is mainly an
> act of total frustration and completely unfair to the unculpable user. OTOH,
> as I stated before, one domain...big deal...one hundred...BIG DEAL. blocked
> by one domain and you will beleive your ISP when they say something wrong on
> the other end. But if 50% of everything they send gets refused...then, well,
> the ISP cannot say it is an outside problem any longer. That is a huge
> incentive not to host spammers or to tolerate misuse of their system.

And a good reason to use RBL's.
RBL's are at least more accurate than blocking netblocks.  You also don't pay
for the bandwidth to receive 10 copies of the same SPAM (reading the annals of
a former spammer, they send multiple copies on purpose because inundation
"works" for them).

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Matthew Carpenter 
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