Re: Yet another virus alert

[Lazlo Nibble]

On Tue, Jan 26, 1999 at 10:18:17AM +0100, Ivan Pope wrote:

> >If you have some evidence to support your claim that sysadmins refuse mail
> >from people for no reason, please present it.
> 
> We were put on the Paul Vixie black list system and had all traffic from
> our mailservers blocked into the US by a US ISP that used the list as a
> reference. This had a major effect on our service, as the ISP was the
> supplier into the US for our ISP.
> What was our crime? Someone used one of our client addresses as a _return_
> address on a piece of spam.

I hardly think that providing a safe home for spammers to collect responses to
their spam is "no reason" for refusing to connect to your system.  By offering
a drop box, your site was actively assisting these lowlifes in their abuse of
the network.  Why should people feel obligated to help you help the spammers
by connecting to you?

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