On Thu, 23 May 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> <ramble> > You hit it dead on: use all the tools at your disposal, but preemptively > "whitelist" your customers. Unfortunately, the whitelisting isn't always as > easy as it sounds. If they are within your IP space, you're good to go, but > if they have the rare portable block, or they are multihomed, etc., you need > to be more careful. > </ramble> > > In Short: Whitelist like crazy, and then blacklist like mad! We do both...but I wouldn't say whitelist like crazy. More like whitelist as needed, and find a blacklist or one of the message body parsing utils you like...or both. For the rare emergency when a customer (or non-customer) needs to talk to our NOC and can't get email through, we have these neat things called telephones. They work pretty well. In fact, I think mine often works too well. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Jon Lewis *[EMAIL PROTECTED]*| I route System Administrator | therefore you are Atlantic Net | _________ http://www.lewis.org/~jlewis/pgp for PGP public key_________