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Date:      Thu, 29 Jun 2000 16:47:04 -0600 (MDT)
From:      Fred Clift <fred@veriohosting.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: RBL/Sendmail
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0006291642360.9837-100000@vespa.orem.iserver.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GHP.4.21.0006292033030.17097-100000@mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk>

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 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.



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