[56613] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Question concerning authoritative bodies.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andy Walden)
Tue Mar 11 11:35:27 2003
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2003 11:31:30 -0600 (CST)
From: Andy Walden <andy@tigerteam.net>
To: jlewis@lewis.org
Cc: Ron da Silva <ron@aol.net>, <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0303111052150.12785-100000@redhat1.mmaero.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Tue, 11 Mar 2003 jlewis@lewis.org wrote:
> On Tue, 11 Mar 2003, Ron da Silva wrote:
>
> > Hmm...I would argue that every operator needs to run their own DNSBL.
>
> If you only DNSBL IPs after you receive spam from them, you have to get
> spammed by every IP before it's blocked. Why not reject mail from IPs
> that have spammed others before they spam you and your customers? Though
I expect this is different in Ron's case since in a single day he gets
enough spam to be equivlent to every IP address once. :) So whats an extra
day right..
Now if AOL would allow their DNSBL to be mirrored...
andy
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