Re: surge in spam email (fwd)

[Joe Abley <jabley () automagic org>]

On Wed, Aug 09, 2000 at 11:25:15AM -0500, Ben Beuchler wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 09, 2000 at 09:20:07AM -0700, Roeland M.J. Meyer wrote:
>
> > Is Telstra still being blocked?
>
> petra:~$ ./spamtest 139.134.5.153
> rbl.maps.vix.com => 
> rss.maps.vix.com => 
> dul.maps.vix.com => 
> relays.orbs.org => 127.0.0.4
> outputs.orbs.org => 

Note 127.0.0.4 indicates a manual listing -- it doesn't indicate that
the relay 139.134.5.153 has been tested and found to be promiscuous.

  $ dig txt 153.5.134.139.relays.orbs.org | grep TXT
  ;;    153.5.134.139.relays.orbs.org, type = TXT, class = IN
  153.5.134.139.relays.orbs.org.        86400   TXT     "Telstra and \
    Optus - spam haveners, refusing to act. "

Highly unscientific research seems to indicate that it's the manual
entries that cause the bulk of the false positives when testing for
spam using the relays.orbs.org zone.

(What's a "havener"? :)


Joe

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