-----Original Message----- From: R. Scott Perry [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>>In addition, I think that both Reserved space (IANA and RFC1918) >>should get blackholed when hop 0 and inbound from the Internet. > >That should not be a problem -- that would only happen if the spammer >forges their IP address, which I've never seen happen (although I once >heard of a rumor of it happening). And, that (for hop 0) is something that >would best be handled by a firewall, as a spoofed IP. I would caution against automatically blocking private address space incoming for hop 0, or at least make it a configurable option, since we have many customer that connect to our private network using private address space, including their mail servers which must be able to connect to our IMail server and deliver mail (we translate to public address space at our firewalls when going out to the Internet). This is primarily because our customers are all healthcare entities who need to be able to communicate with each other privately and securely due to Federal regulations imposed by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) requirements of keeping confidential, patient identifiable data, private and secured. Healthcare may not be the only industry that has privacy and confidentiality requirements, consider the legal and financial industries. Anyway, all I'm asking is that the blocking of IANA and RFC1918 addresses be a configurable option. The reality is that this address space is not even routable via the public Internet anyway, so you should never see a connection coming from the Internet using this address space. Bill --- [This E-mail was scanned for viruses by Declude Virus (http://www.declude.com)] --- This E-mail came from the Declude.JunkMail mailing list. To unsubscribe, just send an E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and type "unsubscribe Declude.JunkMail". The archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com.