From owner-freebsd-current Fri Sep 24 9: 2:21 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from wall.polstra.com (rtrwan160.accessone.com [206.213.115.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B9D815589 for ; Fri, 24 Sep 1999 09:00:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jdp@polstra.com) Received: from vashon.polstra.com (vashon.polstra.com [206.213.73.13]) by wall.polstra.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id JAA16730; Fri, 24 Sep 1999 09:00:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jdp@polstra.com) From: John Polstra Received: (from jdp@localhost) by vashon.polstra.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id JAA70710; Fri, 24 Sep 1999 09:00:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jdp@polstra.com) Date: Fri, 24 Sep 1999 09:00:40 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199909241600.JAA70710@vashon.polstra.com> To: mark@grondar.za Subject: Re: On hub.freebsd.org refusing to talk to dialups In-Reply-To: <199909241014.MAA91015@gratis.grondar.za> References: <199909241014.MAA91015@gratis.grondar.za> Organization: Polstra & Co., Seattle, WA Cc: current@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In article <199909241014.MAA91015@gratis.grondar.za>, Mark Murray wrote: > > The RBL is great! There is a teensy bit of colateral damage, but not > so much that I worry about it. Here in ZA, our USP traffic provider > (Teleglobe) uses RBL, thus absolving us of the responsibility. Since > we started getting this "cleanfeed", spam has dropped dramatically. Strange. I use the RBL on my mail server here, but it really doesn't accomplish much. In the past 8 days it has blocked only 3 distinct spam e-mails, and that's typical. Yet I still receive an average of 5-10 spam mails in my mailbox every day. (*Must* *stop* *fist* *of* *death*!) A few random manual checks seem to indicate that the DUL would do much better for me. These days the RBL is more of a preventative measure than a blocking measure. It has already forced most open relays to tighten up. John -- John Polstra jdp@polstra.com John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA "No matter how cynical I get, I just can't keep up." -- Nora Ephron To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message