From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 25 12:26:38 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 09CB237BBB6 for ; Fri, 25 Oct 2002 12:26:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from web10704.mail.yahoo.com (web10704.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.130.212]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C5C2843E75 for ; Fri, 25 Oct 2002 12:26:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bloom_64@yahoo.com) Message-ID: <20021025192635.8547.qmail@web10704.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [80.117.48.215] by web10704.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Fri, 25 Oct 2002 12:26:35 PDT Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2002 12:26:35 -0700 (PDT) From: Paolo Subject: Re: Returned message To: Ken McGlothlen Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <86fzuuqqka.fsf@ralf.artlogix.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --- Ken McGlothlen wrote: > Paolo 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 __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Y! Web Hosting - Let the expert host your web site http://webhosting.yahoo.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message