[17985] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: RBL Update (Re: Lets go vixie!! rbl)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rick Smith)
Fri Jun 19 02:10:49 1998
Date: Thu, 18 Jun 1998 14:47:13 -0400 (EDT)
From: Rick Smith <rsmith@nac.net>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <19980618131640.62441@mcs.net>
On Thu, 18 Jun 1998, Karl Denninger wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 17, 1998 at 07:12:23PM -0400, Dean Anderson wrote:
>
> SENDER >>>>>> Relay ---------- Internet -------- MX of Recipient
> |
> |
> |
> RECIPIENT
>
> In the middle, the "Internet", you only have a packet flow. You can't
> block "SPAM" in the middle, because you don't know what is and is not
> spam since none of the machines in the middle do anything other than
> route a packet flow from one place to another.
<joke>
conf t
ip spam protect xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
where xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx = host for preprocessing email and removing spam
</joke>
;)
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