Re: OT Spam and Blocking Entire Domains/ISPs

2002-11-27 Thread Thomas Mueller
I am not sure just what Bluegrass Net does to stop spam, but the last I was told is that they blocked mail coming from any server on a list of open relays. I've had legitimate correspondents, both direct and through lists, with Hotmail or Yahoo addresses, and I wouldn't want to bar those. It is h

Re: OT Spam and Blocking Entire Domains/ISPs

2002-11-24 Thread Glenn McCorkle
On Sun, 24 Nov 2002 23:28:20 -0500, Samuel W. Heywood wrote: > Changing one's email address for the purpose of being allowed to mingle > with the members of a "respectable" ISP is no biggie. It is only a very > minor hassle to change one's email address. It is also "no biggie" to simply delete

Re: OT Spam and Blocking Entire Domains/ISPs

2002-11-24 Thread Samuel W. Heywood
On Sat, 23 Nov 2002 14:27:54 -0600, Glenn Gilbreath Jr. wrote: > Hiya Gang! > I couldn't let this one pass anylonger, hehe...sorry, but blocking entire > domains or ISPs just because a user receives 1 or 2 "spam" emails > from some address purported to be owned by that domain/ISP is > akin to deny

Re: OT Spam and Blocking Entire Domains/ISPs

2002-11-23 Thread Glenn Gilbreath Jr.
Hiya Gang! I couldn't let this one pass anylonger, hehe...sorry, but blocking entire domains or ISPs just because a user receives 1 or 2 "spam" emails from some address purported to be owned by that domain/ISP is akin to denying access to the Internet to an ENTIRE race of humans. In other words,