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Date:      Fri, 25 Oct 2002 12:26:35 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Paolo <bloom_64@yahoo.com>
To:        Ken McGlothlen <mcglk@artlogix.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Returned message
Message-ID:  <20021025192635.8547.qmail@web10704.mail.yahoo.com>
In-Reply-To: <86fzuuqqka.fsf@ralf.artlogix.com>

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--- Ken McGlothlen <mcglk@artlogix.com> wrote:
> Paolo <bloom_64@yahoo.com> writes:
> 
> | About changing ISP, it's very difficult in Italy because
> interbusiness is the
> | Internet provider of Telecom Italia, that's the last mile actual
> monopolist
> | and, to get ADSL connection, we all need to deal with it.
> | 
> | Let's say you are excluding near 50% of italian on-line people. I
> don't know
> | if it's fair.
> 
> Unfortunately, there seems to be little other recourse for getting
> interbusiness to become a responsible participant in the Internet. 
> When enough
> of its customers start getting upset because interbusiness finds
> itself on an
> increasingly shrinking intranet, they might actually implement and
> enforce some
> policies that would stop the onslaught of spam, and people would
> start taking
> them out of their blocklists.
> 
> So let interbusiness know how you feel.  Make sure other
> interbusiness
> customers let them know as well.  Pressure them on this.  Believe me,
> there's
> nothing I'd like better than to remove their entry from my
> blocklists---I'd far
> rather be dealing with a responsible ISP than have to block spam from
> them.
> 
> | As my 90% of spam is coming from the USA, I should block all the
> USA mail,
> | don't I?
> 
> Wow.  Really?  90% of my spam comes from South Korea; they may be US
> crooks
> sending the spam, but it's getting routed through insecure South
> Korean
> servers.  Maybe that's the spammer credo:  only spam through other
> countries.
> 

I agree with you all about spam. I am willing to start a more bigger
action against them. Can I publicy talk about interbusiness being
blocked by FreeBSD site? Can anyone at FreeBSD.org give me the
authorization?

Where can I test if others italian ISP are on blacklists too?

Thanks!

Paolo


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