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Re: Spamarrest Was: Listener on ports 137, 138, 139


From: White Vampire <whitevampire () mindless com>
Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2002 22:03:08 -0400

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On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 10:59:40PM +0100, Gary Axten(gary.axten () lineone net) wrote:
I received a mail in return for the one I sent to the list requesting me to
click a link to verify I exist for anti spam purposes.

The company looks legit, though I don't like html mail...

Does anyone other than the sender have any experience or views of this or
similar companies ?

        I personally like a proactive approach on the ISP's part, such
as open relay checking and maintaining a local blacklist.

        There are other approaches too, I am trying to decide exactly
what to implement on one of my servers right now.

        The "tagged message" method is a reasonable method, but not
exactly the most polite thing for things such as mailing lists.  If
everyone used that, people would conceivably receive thousands every
post they sent to a mailing list.  There are other downsides to it.

        (see: http://tmda.net/)

Regards,
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