From owner-freebsd-current Wed May 21 09:49:55 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id JAA20293 for current-outgoing; Wed, 21 May 1997 09:49:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from time.cdrom.com (root@time.cdrom.com [204.216.27.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id JAA20282; Wed, 21 May 1997 09:49:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from time.cdrom.com (jkh@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.8.5/8.6.9) with ESMTP id JAA02606; Wed, 21 May 1997 09:50:16 -0700 (PDT) To: Cat Okita cc: "Duane H. Hesser" , "Jonathan M. Bresler" , current@hub.freebsd.org, jmb@hub.freebsd.org Subject: Re: usregsite.com In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 21 May 1997 11:11:45 EDT." Date: Wed, 21 May 1997 09:50:16 -0700 Message-ID: <2602.864233416@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > I strongly disagree with you. As a large NSP, having to constantly call > people and say "Hi, you were over-zealous, stop blocking our domain" is > a total and complete waste of time, especially since many people don't > properly check for forgeries and origins. Well, you're talking about another worst-case scenario here and one which can ONLY occur if you yourselves are not responsive to emails. I, for example, never block a domain arbitrarily without first sending email to abuse@foo.net and, if that bounces, to postmaster@foo.net. If I then get no reply at all to my query after a reasonable length of time (say 3-4 days, especially if I'm still receiving spam from said location) then I consider it more than reasonable to block access. In your case, that should never happen because you'd have already sent me your standard reply #47 saying "this is not us, it's a forgery - please look through the headers more thoroughly to determine the actual point of entry. Thanks." If, on the other hand, you're not responsive to such mails or, even worse, you don't have abuse/postmaster aliases properly set up then, IHMO, you deserve all the blocking you get. :-) Jordan