At 10:35 PM -0500 4/18/02, Larry Stone  imposed structure on a stream 
of electrons, yielding:
>On 4/18/02 12:53 PM, Craig Bowers at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>>  In your blacklist, place any or all of:
>>
>>
>>  127.0.0.4 ; Confirmed Spam Source A site has been identified as a constant
>>  source of spam, and is manually added. Submissions for this type of spam
>>  require multiple nominations from multiple sites. Test Blockers also find
>>  themselves in this catagory.
>
>I just removed that one after reaching the conclusion I was getting 100%
>collateral damage. A sampling of the logs showed me that the only times
>127.0.0.4 were returned were actually legitimate (and the failure to receive
>the messages caused me problems). I'm sure there's good data there but
>something else in my blacklist was getting it first before the call to
>osirusoft.

It looks to me like 127.0.0.4 equals SPEWS. SPEWS is a list designed 
for significant collateral damage. I can't recommend that anyone who 
values getting legitimate mail use SPEWS for blocking.


-- 
Bill Cole
[EMAIL PROTECTED]


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