From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 29 13: 2: 5 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.telestream.com (mail.telestream.com [205.238.4.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D52137B6CC for ; Thu, 29 Jun 2000 13:02:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from keith@mail.telestream.com) Received: from localhost (keith@localhost) by mail.telestream.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA23263; Thu, 29 Jun 2000 13:01:50 -0700 Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2000 13:01:50 -0700 (PDT) From: To: Jan Grant Cc: 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 I suppose my next question would be, how good is it at actualy decreasing the volume of spam? Thanks for all the replies on this. Keith ================================= Keith W. At the helm ================================= On Thu, 29 Jun 2000, Jan Grant 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. > > In the UK, JANET's* transatlantic pipe denies _all_ traffic from RBLed > hosts. It's been doing this for some time; it doesn't appear to have > generated a great many complaints.** > > > jan > > * Joint Academic NETwork. > ** Not that they would help; it's pretty much a done deal. > > -- > jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ > Tel +44(0)117 9287163 Fax +44 (0)117 9287112 RFC822 jan.grant@bris.ac.uk > HP-unix: Open Sauce product, available in 57 distributions. > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message