From owner-freebsd-current Wed May 21 11:01:45 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA24709 for current-outgoing; Wed, 21 May 1997 11:01:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id LAA24696; Wed, 21 May 1997 11:01:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id KAA03623; Wed, 21 May 1997 10:59:55 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199705211759.KAA03623@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: usregsite.com To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Date: Wed, 21 May 1997 10:59:55 -0700 (MST) Cc: cat@uunet.ca, alex@androcles.com, jmb@FreeBSD.ORG, current@hub.freebsd.org, jmb@hub.freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <2602.864233416@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at May 21, 97 09:50:16 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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. [ ... ] > 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. :-) Is this forged mail, or is your net being used as a relay becayse you failed to secure your MTA? Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.