Re: dnsbl's? - an informal survey

[Jack Bates <jbates () brightok net>]

Mr. James W. Laferriere wrote:
>         Hello Charles & All ,  Love all of you that want to filter ,
>         Please do I would bo one of those that you'd filter .  I've been
>         running my little home netowrk for ~8 years using dialup ,  isdn ,
>         adsl , cable .  Never could get any employer to fork over better
>         than that .  It brings to mind something Randy said ,(something
>         like) I highly recommend that my compititon ...
>         That way people (ie: customers who know better) will find a
>         non/inteligent-filering provider .  Please THINK before doing .
>                 Hth ,  JimL

You seem to think that customers give ISPs a choice. The fact is, 
customers scream about the 50-90% spam that hits their mailbox and want 
it gone at any cost. Whitelisting is easy, and done when requested. 
Customers are happy.

The stance now stands, if you can't afford a static IP address to 
properly run a mail server, then use a smart host. If a server isn't 
static, then the IP address can't be trusted or the next guy at that IP 
address will be a spammer. Most places will whitelist based on email 
address or vanity domain if asked.


-Jack