From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 29 15:40:21 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gatekeeper.veriohosting.com (gatekeeper.veriohosting.com [192.41.0.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F04837C20D for ; Thu, 29 Jun 2000 15:40:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from fred@veriohosting.com) Received: by gatekeeper.veriohosting.com; Thu, 29 Jun 2000 16:40:16 -0600 (MDT) Received: from unknown(192.168.1.7) by gatekeeper.veriohosting.com via smap (V3.1.1) id xma024054; Thu, 29 Jun 00 16:40:11 -0600 Received: from vespa.orem.iserver.com (vespa.orem.iserver.com [192.168.1.144]) by orca.orem.veriohosting.com [Verio Web Hosting, Inc. 801.437.0200] (8.8.8) id QAA68454 for ; Thu, 29 Jun 2000 16:40:10 -0600 (MDT) Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2000 16:47:04 -0600 (MDT) From: Fred Clift X-Sender: fred@vespa.orem.iserver.com To: freebsd-questions@freeBSD.org Subject: Re: RBL/Sendmail In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 29 Jun 2000, keith wrote: > I've been thinking about signing on with RBL. It seems like it may impose > some really harsh limits on things though and am wondering if there are > any RBL users out there with comments on the subject. My basic feeling about RBL is that the folks who run it are a bit fanatical. At my past job, hosts which I controlled were submitted to RBL not because any spam had been actually relayed through them but because of the potential for relaying using a technique that was not yet in any, let alone wide-spread use for relaying. The service they provide is good, so I hear, but I personally consider them a great big denial of service attack. If I were you I'd look at giving my individual users tools to block/filter/sort their mail so that spam can be mostly avoided. I know my views are probably in the minority on this, but shrug I'm not trying to make enemies. -- Fred Clift - fred@clift.org -- Remember: If brute force doesn't work, you're just not using enough. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message