[30655] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Now the idiots at ORBS are probing random dial-ups
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Payne)
Tue Aug 22 02:53:54 2000
Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 23:52:10 -0700
From: John Payne <john@sackheads.org>
To: Keith Woodworth <kwoody@citytel.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
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In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.95.1000821231528.20008I-100000@rosencrantz.citytel.net>; from kwoody@citytel.net on Mon, Aug 21, 2000 at 11:22:13PM -0700
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On Mon, Aug 21, 2000 at 11:22:13PM -0700, Keith Woodworth wrote:
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> On Mon, 21 Aug 2000, John Payne wrote:
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> >>What trouble does MAPS cause? RSS and DUL are blocking quite a bit of spam
> >>for *me*. Dunno how much the RBL is blocking... 'cos I'm behind a BGP feed.
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> I find that RBL does not really block all that much overall. We dont use
> RSS or DUL here. Though one fellow posted a link to his stats on
> inet-access to his mail stats as graphed by RRDTool/Cricket. Shows most of
> the mail tagged as spam is blocked via RSS.
Don't forget - the main purpose of the RBL is not to block spam... its to
educate spam(mers| friendly networks). If the RBL is blocking lots of mail,
then its failed its primary purpose.
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