From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Dec 28 9:19: 4 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 1C54537B401; Sat, 28 Dec 2002 09:19:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from caligula.anu.edu.au (caligula.anu.edu.au [150.203.224.42]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 06CDD43EC2; Sat, 28 Dec 2002 09:19:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from avalon@caligula.anu.edu.au) Received: (from avalon@localhost) by caligula.anu.edu.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) id EAA13036; Sun, 29 Dec 2002 04:18:35 +1100 (EST) From: Darren Reed Message-Id: <200212281718.EAA13036@caligula.anu.edu.au> Subject: Re: Bystander shot by a spam filter. To: 937863@primus.ca (Allan Jude) Date: Sun, 29 Dec 2002 04:18:35 +1100 (Australia/ACT) Cc: htabak@quadtelecom.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, security@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "Allan Jude" at Dec 28, 2002 11:51:43 AM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL1] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 In some mail from Allan Jude, sie said: > > This is not all that surprising > The behavior you are talking about, blocking entire isp's and blocks of > ips, is the same as the other service you mentioned earlier, SPEWS. > > SPEWS has blocked 2 entire c-classes at my isp, preventing my company > from sending mail to many large email sites, like mail.com and others. > > When I enquired about having the block removed, or made more specific to > block the spammers, but not block my /28, I was told to go to hell. > > I think you are in the same situation. Ah, no wonder theo wants to use SPEWS with his new anti-spam SMTP mail handler - the two parties have matching personalities. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message