[70538] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Barracuda Networks Spam Firewall
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Todd Vierling)
Tue May 18 16:17:11 2004
Date: Tue, 18 May 2004 16:13:20 -0400 (EDT)
From: Todd Vierling <tv@duh.org>
To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: "Christopher X. Candreva" <chris@westnet.com>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <200405182005.i4IK52O5025589@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Tue, 18 May 2004 Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
: Yes, it *would* be nice if everybody in the world was able to DTRT on
: their outward-facing gateway and send back an immediate 550 on a RCPT TO:
: in order to stop stuff right up front. However, this implies getting
: buy-in and resources of all the appropriate people.
Blocking outbound mail from such entities is a pretty good way to get
buy-in. (Yes, there's a DNSBL in work to enumerate such systems.)
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-- Todd Vierling <tv@duh.org> <tv@pobox.com>
