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Re: [NANOG] Block: Road Runner Internal IP blacklist 72.22.18.105

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Bj=F8rn_Mork?=)
Fri Apr 25 10:24:50 2008

From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Bj=F8rn_Mork?= <bjorn@mork.no>
To: Matthew Evans <mevans@alphatheory.com>
Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2008 16:24:21 +0200
In-Reply-To: <6E7EB2F0E1A0634CACFF78A04B6452DB0FCF60ACF0@alpha-dc01.alphatheory.local>
	(Matthew Evans's message of "Fri, 25 Apr 2008 10:05:07 -0400")
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org

Matthew Evans <mevans@alphatheory.com> writes:

> Road Runner utilizes a volume based spam block from my
> understanding. If you send over X amount of email in Y amount of time,
> they block you. You need to create a rule that staggers the number of
> messages you send to all rr.com domains so as to not trigger the
> threshold and become blocked. See here for the limits:
> http://security.rr.com/spam.htm#ratelimit

So they'll block all the major ISPs smtp relays, but not the infected
PCs used to inject spam?  Smart.  Do their customers really accept this?


Bj=F8rn

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