From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Dec 28 19:32:55 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 2B4AF37B405 for ; Sat, 28 Dec 2002 19:32:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from mtiwmhc12.worldnet.att.net (mtiwmhc12.worldnet.att.net [204.127.131.116]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0BC2443EA9 for ; Sat, 28 Dec 2002 19:32:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from htabak@quadtelecom.com) Received: from quadtelecom.com ([12.91.170.248]) by mtiwmhc12.worldnet.att.net (InterMail vM.5.01.05.12 201-253-122-126-112-20020820) with ESMTP id <20021229033251.QUVP12483.mtiwmhc12.worldnet.att.net@quadtelecom.com>; Sun, 29 Dec 2002 03:32:51 +0000 Message-ID: <3E0E67D1.8050309@quadtelecom.com> Date: Sat, 28 Dec 2002 22:11:13 -0500 From: Harry Tabak Organization: Quad Telecom, Inc. User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Chuck Swiger Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Bystander shot by a spam filter. References: <3E0DAAF3.7090103@quadtelecom.com> <3E0E1CDD.2050605@mac.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Chuck Swiger wrote: > If one sends a message that could not be delivered, an error report > (called a DSN) is returned, describing the problem. People sending > legitimate email know who they've sent mail to, right? And when they > get DSN's, as you most probably did, you talk to your ISP, etc, etc. > > How many bounced messages are you talking about, approximately? Would > you be willing to give those individuals a phone call to talk about your > message, instead, or ask their postmaster to change their spam-filter to > let your mail through? In this case, the package configuration puts 'spam' in a separate folder and doesn't send a bounce message. I may not get feed back until and unless I do a follow-up call. A follow-up call is not always possible. > > [ Because that's basicly what it all comes down to, all of the advocacy > for or against regulation aside. FWIW, I block three /16's under > 16.0.0.0/8, but yours wasn't one of them-- I checked. Bah...I'm getting > 1000+ dictionary scans from DSL pools in .br a day. ] actually my block is 66.45.116.136/29. Temporarily, I can't post to this list from one of those addresses -- but that is another story and is fixable. > > -Chuck > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message