From owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 6 13:15:45 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5476216A41F for ; Fri, 6 Jan 2006 13:15:45 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Received: from mh2.centtech.com (moat3.centtech.com [207.200.51.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 94B8843D49 for ; Fri, 6 Jan 2006 13:15:44 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Received: from [10.177.171.220] (neutrino.centtech.com [10.177.171.220]) by mh2.centtech.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id k06DFgrI078388; Fri, 6 Jan 2006 07:15:43 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Message-ID: <43BE6D6A.3000306@centtech.com> Date: Fri, 06 Jan 2006 07:15:22 -0600 From: Eric Anderson User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (X11/20060104) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Erich Dollansky References: <43BE68A2.50901@pacific.net.sg> In-Reply-To: <43BE68A2.50901@pacific.net.sg> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.87.1/1232/Fri Jan 6 05:04:05 2006 on mh2.centtech.com X-Virus-Status: Clean Cc: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org, Alan Smithee Subject: Re: Mail originating from FreeBSD servers spam-blocked by large organization X-BeenThere: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: FreeBSD Evangelism List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 06 Jan 2006 13:15:45 -0000 Erich Dollansky wrote: > Hi, > > Alan Smithee wrote: > >> >> Naturally, I think this is a rather draconian defense, of limited >> practical > > > they should block e-mails written by Outlook clients. > >> Does anyone have any advice? In particular, I would be keen to >> obtain any >> statistics or references for organizations that use FreeBSD to host >> their >> email servers. > > > The problem could be linked to Hotmail and Yahoo. Hotmail was FreeBSD > and Yahoo should still be FreeBSD. > > Both are commonly used for spamming. This thread should be cc'ed or reposted to the freebsd-isp@ mailing list - there are lots of admins and such there that can act as a reference for this kind of misinformation about FreeBSD. Whatever organization this is (and I presume possibly a .gov), should really re-evaluate their means of blocking mail, and maybe do a little research first. If they are blocking based on the word freebsd then who knows what else they think is evil.. Yikes. Eric -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Anderson Sr. Systems Administrator Centaur Technology Anything that works is better than anything that doesn't. ------------------------------------------------------------------------