At 03:08 PM 9/30/98 -0500, Sam Hayes Merritt, III wrote:
On Wed, 30 Sep 1998, Barry Shein wrote:
We've been having increasing problems with one or more porn sites in the .to domain promoting itself by massive spamming of AOL customers using one of our domains in their From: header thus causing both complaints to us and thousands of bounces from AOL due to bad AOL addresses in their spam lists.
About a year ago, I asked Vixie if he would RBL porn sites. I might have supported the RBL if there were a moral high ground. He said no. --Dean P.S. Barry, I do feel sorry for you. Perhaps you should just refuse spam complaints, and try to get them to stop using your domains. Instead of stealing a domain, all the spammers need to do is change their addresses to uucp style addresses, and their mail will likely be accepted, and bounces shouldn't leave the system. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Plain Aviation, Inc dean@av8.com LAN/WAN/UNIX/NT/TCPIP http://www.av8.com ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++