-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 23 Aug 2000, Peter van Dijk wrote:
Stop there. You are now promoting blocking orbs.org because you don't like what some MAPS guy says to you. MAPS and ORBS are different and separate (some might say rivaling but let's not have that discussion again) organizations. Don't hold one responsible for what the other does.
Barry has simply proven, yet again, that he is a moron. The cluestick has been hitting him squarely in the head for quite some time, but it's not making a mark. :) Regarding the DUL list, I personally think it is the only anti-spam list that an ISP can afford to apply to its systems. (I would be extremely surprised if it actually blocked any legitimate mail. ORBS, on the other hand, definitely has too many false positives for me, even if I did agree with the ethics of the admins. And while the MAPS RBL and RSS are extremely effective with relatively low blockage of legitimate mail, the risk of blocking the legitimate mail is too high for me.) The DUL list is extremely useful. J.D. can correct me if I am wrong, but they don't do any probing with this list; they just list the IPs that are in dialup pools. It doesn't matter if they have an open relay or no mail server at all. Since there's rarely any legitimate reason for someone to be sending mail from a mail server on a dialup line, this easily blocks a large source of spam with little risk. __ L. Sassaman Security Architect | "We all want many things, Technology Consultant | but some of those are bottomly | destructive of all desires." http://sion.quickie.net | --Vernor Vinge -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Comment: OpenPGP Encrypted Email Preferred. iD8DBQE5pG8IPYrxsgmsCmoRAtSxAJ9qdeSNMYmmmXda/sDmKw0cwIwYIwCaAtur V5ll+0nwNYJnZVVmZ3lN06E= =E9IN -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----