So your ISP should be black listed because I put your name in the From
line (return address) and the reply-to line above? So wonderful of
your ISP to make a safe home for me.
At least that was my understanding of what Ivan said --
Bob
>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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> Lazlo Nibble - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.studio-nibble.com
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