From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Feb 4 16:46:32 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA23007 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:46:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from germanium.xtalwind.net (germanium.xtalwind.net [205.160.242.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA23002 for ; Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:46:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jack@germanium.xtalwind.net) Received: from localhost (jack@localhost) by germanium.xtalwind.net (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id TAA14904; Thu, 4 Feb 1999 19:46:16 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 4 Feb 1999 19:46:16 -0500 (EST) From: jack To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ports/9864: make rblcheck use relay.orbs.org instead of dorkslayers.com In-Reply-To: <21239.918171130@zippy.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, 4 Feb 1999, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > You're absolutely right. However, complaints to uu.net, psi.net, > > netcom.{com,net,ca}, att, mci, etc. have not reduced the amount > > of spam I received from those sources in the least. Blocking > > their dialup ports has reduced it by much more than 50%. > > And for other people, it blocks more than 50% of the actual traffic > they wish to receive which is why it needs to remain a SITE SPECIFIC > choice. We may turn something like blind-relaying off by default > (since it's so widely abused in 3rd party spam) but we're not going to > turn on ANYBODY'S map database by default. Period. That's a local > administrator's decision to make. If it were up to me *everything* during installs/upgrades would be site specific. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jack O'Neill Systems Administrator / Systems Analyst jack@germanium.xtalwind.net Crystal Wind Communications, Inc. Finger jack@germanium.xtalwind.net for my PGP key. PGP Key fingerprint = F6 C4 E6 D4 2F 15 A7 67 FD 09 E9 3C 5F CC EB CD enriched, vcard, HTML messages > /dev/null -------------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message