From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Oct 24 14:31:47 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id OAA21704 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:31:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from cedb.dpcsys.com (cedb.dpcsys.com [206.16.184.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id OAA21695 for ; Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:31:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@dpcsys.com) Received: from localhost (dan@localhost) by cedb.dpcsys.com (8.8.5/8.8.2) with SMTP id VAA10970; Fri, 24 Oct 1997 21:30:21 GMT Date: Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:30:21 -0700 (PDT) From: Dan Busarow To: "James E. Housley" cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Anti-spam in hub.mc In-Reply-To: <34510029.193E7316@pr-comm.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 24 Oct 1997, James E. Housley wrote: > I think I am missing something important here. I was using an older anti-spam > rule set for sendmail. I started using the new set that is in hub.mc . My > question is that mail from a site that is blocked has a message/reply with > #blocked.contact postmaster@pr-comm.com (for me, was postmaster@FreeBSD.ORG). > My question is how will they actually contact the postmaster if mail from that > site is blocked????? By telephone. Seriously, if you've blocked someone by mistake they can either get your phone number from whois (you do keep your contact information up to date, right) or send mail from an account at a non-blocked site. Personally I wouldn't bother with the contact ... message, our message is "Access denied". Dan -- Dan Busarow 714 443 4172 DPC Systems / Beach.Net dan@dpcsys.com Dana Point, California 83 09 EF 59 E0 11 89 B4 8D 09 DB FD E1 DD 0C 82