Date: Thu, 4 Feb 1999 19:46:16 -0500 (EST) From: jack <jack@germanium.xtalwind.net> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com> Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ports/9864: make rblcheck use relay.orbs.org instead of dorkslayers.com Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9902041901390.14576-100000@germanium.xtalwind.net> In-Reply-To: <21239.918171130@zippy.cdrom.com>
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On Thu, 4 Feb 1999, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
> > You're absolutely right. However, complaints to uu.net, psi.net,
> > netcom.{com,net,ca}, att, mci, etc. have not reduced the amount
> > of spam I received from those sources in the least. Blocking
> > their dialup ports has reduced it by much more than 50%.
>
> And for other people, it blocks more than 50% of the actual traffic
> they wish to receive which is why it needs to remain a SITE SPECIFIC
> choice. We may turn something like blind-relaying off by default
> (since it's so widely abused in 3rd party spam) but we're not going to
> turn on ANYBODY'S map database by default. Period. That's a local
> administrator's decision to make.
If it were up to me *everything* during installs/upgrades would
be site specific.
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