[30500] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: surge in spam email (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ben Beuchler)
Wed Aug 9 15:27:24 2000
Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2000 14:25:51 -0500
From: Ben Beuchler <insyte@emt-p.org>
To: Joe Abley <jabley@automagic.org>
Cc: "Roeland M.J. Meyer" <rmeyer@mhsc.com>,
'David Charlap' <david.charlap@marconi.com>, nanog@merit.edu
Message-ID: <20000809142551.L4698@emt-p.org>
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In-Reply-To: <20000810072102.C19417@splatter.telstra.net>; from jabley@automagic.org on Thu, Aug 10, 2000 at 07:21:02AM +1200
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On Thu, Aug 10, 2000 at 07:21:02AM +1200, Joe Abley wrote:
> > relays.orbs.org => 127.0.0.4
> > outputs.orbs.org =>
>
> Note 127.0.0.4 indicates a manual listing -- it doesn't indicate that
> the relay 139.134.5.153 has been tested and found to be promiscuous.
>
> $ dig txt 153.5.134.139.relays.orbs.org | grep TXT
> ;; 153.5.134.139.relays.orbs.org, type = TXT, class = IN
> 153.5.134.139.relays.orbs.org. 86400 TXT "Telstra and \
> Optus - spam haveners, refusing to act. "
>
> Highly unscientific research seems to indicate that it's the manual
> entries that cause the bulk of the false positives when testing for
> spam using the relays.orbs.org zone.
I agree, which is why I intend to use outputs.orbs.org. It does not
contain the manual entries. It supposedly only contains confirmed
relays.
Ben
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