on Wed, Sep 22, 2004 at 10:16:41AM +0200, Lars-Johan Liman wrote:
I cannot agree to the "block port 25" line of action.
I am a Unix sysadmin, with 15 years of experience as sendmail and DNS expert. I have a DSL line at home, with static IP, and generic rDNS provided by my ISP. Behind it I have a serious Unix server, configured to roughly the same standard that I use at work.
Congrats. Ask your ISP for non-generic rDNS, in your domain, so I know where to send the abuse reports.
I know enough about this business to not trust my ISP with anything more than moving packets to and from my server (and even that is streching it ;-). I don't want to pay for their lousy mail service, I can do it better myself.
And you don't want to let me?
I don't mind at all. Get rDNS that provides a clue that you have a clue, and I'm happy as all get out to accept mail from you. Otherwise, you're functionally identical to fifty million spam zombies, as far as I have time to determine. Understand me? You're the /rare exception/.
Now, *why* should *I* be punished because the rest of my neighbours have chosen to jump into the commercial bed of an operating system that is a walking invitation to cracking?
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