Michael, Thus spoke Michael Croft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Saturday, 12 July 2003 at 3:42 AM +1000:
>Bigfoot, the mail forwarding service that at one time promised "free email >addresses for life", has recently moved at least some of their servers to >Korea. One of my users has her bigfoot address forwarded to my mail >server. Mail to her looks to our server as if it comes from >bflitemail-kr2.bigfoot.com. > >All well and good, except that the korean IP is in the blackholes.us cn-kr >list. Since it's, you know, in Korea. That list is one of our best spam >stoppers. Bigfoot, providing better customer service to my user than I >expected, asked me to unblock them. I have had to stop using the country based RBLs from blackholes.us as they simply exclude the whole countries not just known sources of spam (like the whole of SingTel including the national telco's mail servers not just their broadband and dial-in ip#, similarly cn-kr knocks out the whole of Hong Kong). Yes, I am getting more spam, but my customers can get mail from their relatives and friends in Asia now and they can do business there. BTW relays.osirusoft.com appeared down this weekend, and SMTP went deaf, turned dialups.relays.osirusoft.com and socks.relays.osirusoft.com off and the pulled the sock out of 4D Mail's port 110 ear! BTW it is very hard to do any diagnosing with the SMTP log that tells you two thirds of "sweat fanny adams" :-) hf, Nick Quinn Sunshine Beach Software in OZ ############################################################# This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To switch to the INDEX mode, E-mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Send administrative queries to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
