From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 4 23:19: 9 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from maloca.oca.org.br (maloca.oca.org.br [164.41.38.242]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 36FFA37B74F for ; Tue, 4 Jul 2000 23:19:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from root@maloca.oca.org.br) Received: from localhost (root@localhost) by maloca.oca.org.br (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id DAA48690 for ; Wed, 5 Jul 2000 03:18:49 -0300 (EST) (envelope-from root@maloca.oca.org.br) Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2000 03:18:48 -0300 (EST) From: Paje da Oca To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: RBL/Sendmail In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 29 Jun 2000, Fred Clift wrote: > On Thu, 29 Jun 2000, keith wrote: > > > I've been thinking about signing on with RBL. It seems like it may impose > > some really harsh limits on things though and am wondering if there are > > any RBL users out there with comments on the subject. > > My basic feeling about RBL is that the folks who run it are a bit > fanatical. At my past job, hosts which I controlled were submitted to RBL > not because any spam had been actually relayed through them but because of > the potential for relaying using a technique that was not yet in any, let > alone wide-spread use for relaying. > > The service they provide is good, so I hear, but I personally consider > them a great big denial of service attack. > > If I were you I'd look at giving my individual users tools to > block/filter/sort their mail so that spam can be mostly avoided. > > I know my views are probably in the minority on this, but shrug I'm not > trying to make enemies. Well, at least you have one more vote on your side. I received much more complaints from our users for loosing 4 or 5 messages which they considered important, than for hundred of unsolicited mail. Y agree that it is safer to implement a local filtering policy or (depending on the technical ability of your users), passing to them the task. Leonardo To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message