From owner-freebsd-isp Wed Sep 25 13:48:44 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D71737B404 for ; Wed, 25 Sep 2002 13:48:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from digitaldaemon.com (digitaldaemon.com [63.105.9.34]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9AC3543E91 for ; Wed, 25 Sep 2002 13:48:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jan@digitaldaemon.com) Received: (qmail 21429 invoked from network); 25 Sep 2002 20:34:48 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO digitaldaemon.com) (192.168.0.220) by digitaldaemon.com with SMTP; 25 Sep 2002 20:34:48 -0000 Message-ID: <3D92200E.1070000@digitaldaemon.com> Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2002 16:43:58 -0400 From: Jan Knepper Organization: http://www.digitaldaemon.com/ User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.1b) Gecko/20020721 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Dave [Hawk-Systems]" Cc: Denny Reiter , Ralph Forsythe , Eric_Stanfield@kenokozie.com, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: aol postmaster References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Dave [Hawk-Systems] wrote: >>>The idea of AOL testing servers to cut down on SPAM is rather amusing to >>>me. I always thought that unless an AOL account was used for mass >>>emailings, they took a hands-off approach to the issue. SPAM detection is >>>better left to things like spamassassin anyway. >>> >>> >>Yes, AOL does indeed test SMTP servers for open relays and then >>blacklists them if they aren't fixed. We've been notified about a >>couple that customers on our network had set up. >> >> >Nice to be so big that you are immune to criticism... You can block spammers, >and yet are the source for a large amount of the spam yourself. Not like we can >all just block AOL and call it even. :( > I would be more than happy to do so. >On that note though, doesn't take much to batton down your SMTP servers so they >are not an open relay, then if they block you, sue for anti-competitive >practices or something. > Qmail? Jan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message