I think it is a good sign that "mainstream" products are starting to include DNS BL lookups. Symantec's products (and similar big names) are setting somewhat of a de-facto industry standard for the vast majority of less sophisticated "part-time" mail administrators who are only casually interested in email issues. I suspect, this will aid in the broader proliferation of SPAM filtering, give more credence to open relay databases - hopefully putting more pressure on "innocent" open relay servers to get their act together and in the long run allowing us to use them more aggressively.
Currently, the usual defense of ignorant administrators running open relay or RFC non-compliant SMTP servers is that "we never had a problem sending to everyone else" - putting US on the defensive trying to explain why RFCs must be followed so that the variety of hardware, software, operating system and application brands all can communicate across the one Internet. Best Regards Andy Schmidt Phone: +1 201 934-3414 x20 (Business) Fax: +1 201 934-9206 --- [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.
