[7719] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: karl and paul, expostulating
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul A Vixie)
Thu Feb 20 17:01:10 1997
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 20 Feb 1997 14:36:37 EST."
<199702201936.OAA26545@lighttower.lsiinc.com>
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 1997 13:52:13 -0800
From: Paul A Vixie <paul@vix.com>
> In the last two weeks or so I got spammed from SPRY/Compuserve at lest
> half-a-dozen times. You don't seem to be blocking them, do you?
No. But I do block the /32's used by spammers to relay mail through Prodigy.
I have not personally been spammed via Compuserve recently, and moreover they
have been very active in getting their Sendmail upgraded to make this kind of
unintended relay service stop.
I don't have a hair trigger on this gun -- it takes quite a while for me to
decide that someone can't/won't come around on their own. And when I block
things I do it with as long a prefix as possible, since I am not trying to
penalize anybody and I want all "cooperative" portions of the net to reach me.
Thanks for asking, even though your implicatory tone is very damaging to you.
