[11569] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: An end to spam through Graphnet
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg A. Woods)
Fri Aug 1 20:32:22 1997
Date: Fri, 1 Aug 1997 20:28:11 -0400 (EDT)
From: woods@most.weird.com (Greg A. Woods)
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: John-David Childs's message
of "Fri, August 1, 1997 17:10:19 -0600"
regarding "Re: An end to spam through Graphnet"
id <19970801171019.12671@denver.net>
Reply-To: woods@weird.com (Greg A. Woods)
[ On Fri, August 1, 1997 at 17:10:19 (-0600), John-David Childs wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: An end to spam through Graphnet
>
> I implemented these anti-spam rules on the servers I administrate about
> three months ago. There was a flood of complaints from people who use
> other dialin services, so I put together a list of the SMTP servers for
> "the big boys" and also for the local (competing) ISP's in each community
> served (I sysadmin ISP's in three states). The list is available to the
> customers via web or email. Since then, no complaints.
AH! That's a really good idea! Just help the customer's configure
their mailer to use the particular SMTP server for the dial-up they're
currently on..... For most purposes this should be more than adequate.
It also opens up a market for a little config wizard that can do this
based on the number dialed! ;-)
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