From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 6 18:20:12 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 322D137B400 for ; Tue, 6 Aug 2002 18:20:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from c3po.artlogix.com (sense-mcglk-240.oz.net [216.39.168.240]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C01DB43E3B for ; Tue, 6 Aug 2002 18:20:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mcglk@artlogix.com) Received: from ralf.artlogix.com.artlogix.com (ralf.artlogix.com [192.168.0.4]) by c3po.artlogix.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4BF821A978; Tue, 6 Aug 2002 18:20:01 -0700 (PDT) To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: I KINDLY NEED YOUR ASSISTANCE References: <20020806122816.X43080-100000@m-net.arbornet.org> From: Ken McGlothlen In-Reply-To: <20020806122816.X43080-100000@m-net.arbornet.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.1 (Cuyahoga Valley) Date: 06 Aug 2002 18:20:16 -0700 Message-ID: <861y9bpir3.fsf@ralf.artlogix.com> Lines: 26 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Ganesh Kumar writes: | But the problem is with "communication". When I was taking care of mail | servers, we got spam(and email bombs too) from a particular webhost. But | making the admin understand our problem was a pain for me ! (bcos, it | originated from taiwan ) In most cases, I don't block unless there's a significant problem getting the offending ISP to take the complaint seriously. After blocking some fifty or sixty hosts in South Korea and China, I finally had to get proactive. It's not really up to me to convince them that there's a problem; I figure if their customers can't send mail where they wish, that eventually they'll realize that *they* have a problem that needs to be addressed. Nobody likes being on an isolated intranet, and I think that should be the natural consequence of being an inconsiderate netizen. | If someone can block the legitimate spams to the list (from freebsd group) | atleast and prevent mails from that address alone ,would save us :) Well, I don't think the FreeBSD lists should necessarily be as aggressive about spam as I've been---but I have to admit that I wouldn't mind. If I were a customer of some ISP, and I lost a valuable resource because my ISP was ineffective at controlling spam from their site, I'd switch ISPs. Eventually, the ISP would get the hint. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message