>> >> On Sat, Nov 27, 2004 at 04:43:37PM -0800, Bob Amen wrote: >> > I must disagree. Unfortunately the number of responsible people on >> > the other end of cable and DSL modems is vanishingly small compared to >> > the number of zombie machines that are spewing spam and more viruses. On >> > a typical day we get abut 340,000 delivery attempts. We block about >> > 110,000 thanks to SORBS. That's per day. I have only gotten 4 or 5 false >> > positives due to SORBS listings in the last 6 months. (Of 340,000 >> > incoming messages, we pass on 7,400 to our users.) >> > >> > So would you have us accept 110,000 garbage messages per day for >> > less than one a month that are responsible people running their own mail >> > server on a cable or DSL modem? That would be a great cost to us in >> > either processing power to analyze the messages with SA and/or lost >> > productivity for all our users to wade through more junk. >> > >> > I'm sorry but you must send mail through your ISP's mail server or >> > be blocked by an increasing number of mail servers around the Internet. >> > If your ISP doesn't support using their mail server with your domain, >> > find another one. My home ISP does, which is one reason I chose them. >> > >> > -- >> > Bob Amen >> > O'Reilly Media, Inc. >> > http://www.ora.com/ >> > http://www.oreilly.com/ >> >> Bob is right. If you want to send mail directly to mail servers without >> having a static IP, switch to another ISP. Or use your ISP's mail >> server. >> >> We don't want users to receive thousands of spam mails just in order to >> allow 1 or 2 guys to send their mail directly from their machine, >> without using their ISP's mail server... >> >> Nicolas, Paris. >>
Hi, if I did not miss anything in this thread, the victim HAS a static IP on the cable/dsl link and pays more for the access than dynamic ip would cost with the same provider. The provider, however, reports a full ip block (which may have a few percent of static ip's) as dialup. I believe the extra money they get on the fixed ip should allow them to - either report correctly or - create a mail relay where authenticated users can use their own domain name as sender Wolfgang Hamann
