[78713] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: sorbs.net
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay R. Ashworth)
Mon Mar 21 10:59:03 2005
Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 10:58:00 -0500
From: "Jay R. Ashworth" <jra@baylink.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20050321105143.U24219@mail.tacorp.net>; from Jason Slagle <raistlin@tacorp.net> on Mon, Mar 21, 2005 at 10:55:13AM -0500
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Mon, Mar 21, 2005 at 10:55:13AM -0500, Jason Slagle wrote:
> This is the risk you run - this product either had it on by default, or it
> was in a list of options to turn on. End users don't know what it is, and
> only know it'll help eliminate spam, and they turn it on. Then they
> generate support load when their email breaks.
>
> Average user, or even sysadmin, doesn't know about dnsbl's. To state that
> you make a concerted effort to use them nowadays may be false.
> Spamassassin comes out of the box poking SORBS and adding score if it's in
> there. I turned it off because of questionable listings, but how many
> users of SA know how to do that?
This sounds like an excellent sales point for value added mail
processing...
Cheers,
-- jra
--
Jay R. Ashworth jra@baylink.com
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