[58763] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: dnsbl's? - an informal survey
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mr. James W. Laferriere)
Fri May 30 22:18:38 2003
Date: Fri, 30 May 2003 22:18:10 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Mr. James W. Laferriere" <babydr@baby-dragons.com>
To: Jack Bates <jbates@brightok.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <3ED8028C.6050700@brightok.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Hello Jack ,
On Fri, 30 May 2003, Jack Bates wrote:
> Mr. James W. Laferriere wrote:
> > Hello Charles & All , Love all of you that want to filter ,
> > Please do I would bo one of those that you'd filter . I've been
> > running my little home netowrk for ~8 years using dialup , isdn ,
> > adsl , cable . Never could get any employer to fork over better
> > than that . It brings to mind something Randy said ,(something
> > like) I highly recommend that my compititon ...
> > That way people (ie: customers who know better) will find a
> > non/inteligent-filering provider . Please THINK before doing .
> > Hth , JimL
> You seem to think that customers give ISPs a choice. The fact is,
> customers scream about the 50-90% spam that hits their mailbox and want
> it gone at any cost. Whitelisting is easy, and done when requested.
> Customers are happy.
White listing is NOT what was being discussed . Tho is can be
adventagous in the right circumstances .
> The stance now stands, if you can't afford a static IP address to
> properly run a mail server, then use a smart host. If a server isn't
> static, then the IP address can't be trusted or the next guy at that IP
> address will be a spammer. Most places will whitelist based on email
> address or vanity domain if asked.
And neither was Static addressing . Filtering was being discussed
based on some unknown (to me probably others as well) methodology .
Twyl , JimL
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