nanog mailing list archives
Re: Digital Bill of Rights
From: Jeff Mcadams <jeffm () iglou com>
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1998 16:14:54 -0500 (EST)
Thus spake Bob Allisat
There is absolutely no reason for ISPs to do *anything*. Except for implementing a USER CONFIGURABLE INTERFACE that allows personal filtering of E-Mail *before* it is downloaded. I called this the ALLISAT INDEX once upon a time but what is a name?
Well...Bob, while I think you're a raving lunatic...guess what? You can do this with the RBL as it stands! At least our MTA allowed us to set it up this way...It's not something that can be decided on the fly when a specific piece of email is retrieved (say through Eudora), but its a setting that our users set on whether to use RBL or not. Isn't that a radical idea...that ISP's can implement things how they want because its their equipment. Now, please...take your raving lunacies. We can't help it if you can't figure out how to configure your MTA like you wish. (My apologies if this is more noise than signal...I can't believe I'm actually responding to Bob...sheesh...hopefully its at least *somewhat* operationally related since it involves MTA config) For what its worth...our MTA (exim in our shop) allows us to set an RBL warning on messages globally, but not block them on a system-wide level. This then let's our users configure procmail, filter, or even an exim filter to dump any messages which have the RBL warning on them. Incidentally, we have a system level service the users can "sign up" for (its set up in our billing system as a seperate account type, but its free) that will accomplish this basically at the system level...but again, its user specific. -- Jeff McAdams Email: jeffm () iglou com Head Network Administrator Voice: (502) 966-3848 IgLou Internet Services (800) 436-4456
Current thread:
- Re: Digital Bill of Rights Bob Allisat (Nov 20)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- RE: Digital Bill of Rights Bob Allisat (Nov 20)
- RE: recent rash of otherlistcontent posts scott w (Nov 20)
- RE: recent rash of otherlistcontent posts Rubens Kuhl Jr. (Nov 20)
- Re: Digital Bill of Rights Phil Howard (Nov 20)
- RE: recent rash of otherlistcontent posts scott w (Nov 20)
- Re: Digital Bill of Rights Bob Allisat (Nov 20)
- Re: Digital Bill of Rights for Kooks Charles Sprickman (Nov 20)
- Re: Digital Bill of Rights Jeff Mcadams (Nov 20)
- RE: Digital Bill of Rights Owen DeLong (Nov 20)
- Re: Digital Bill of Rights Paul Vixie (Nov 20)
- Re: Digital Bill of Rights Bob Allisat (Nov 21)
- Re: Digital Bill of Rights Paul Vixie (Nov 20)
- Re: Digital Bill of Rights Andrew Staples (Nov 20)