From owner-freebsd-isp Tue May 26 11:35:11 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA23386 for freebsd-isp-outgoing; Tue, 26 May 1998 11:35:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from Rigel.orionsys.com (rigel.orionsys.com [205.148.224.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA23363 for ; Tue, 26 May 1998 11:35:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dbabler@Rigel.orionsys.com) Received: from localhost (dbabler@localhost) by Rigel.orionsys.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id LAA19298; Tue, 26 May 1998 11:34:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dbabler@Rigel.orionsys.com) Date: Tue, 26 May 1998 11:34:45 -0700 (PDT) From: David Babler To: Troy Settle cc: isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SMTP Relay probing - Should I follow up - advice? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, 25 May 1998, Troy Settle wrote: > On Mon, 25 May 1998, Paul Civati wrote: > > Karl Pielorz wrote: > > > I'm just annoyed a company that obviously has set out to specialise in > > > spam/electronic mailing lists doesn't even use it's own servers to send the > > > damned stuff out... > > > > Well, yes, otherwise their IP blocks would soon be well known and people > > would just block them, get them put on MAPS RBL, etc. Which would put > > them out of business. > > Just imagine what would happen if everyone who runs a mail server were to > deny relaying. Put them spammer people out of business real quick :) Actually, the fastest-growing segment of spam now seems to come from "direct spewers" - software Joe Six-pack runs on his dialup connection that does MX lookups and sends spam directly to the victom's system. We now block SMTP contact from all major ISPs' dialup ranges for that reason. -Dave To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message