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Re[2]: att.net email issues?
From: Richard Welty <rwelty () averillpark net>
Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2003 22:38:27 -0500 (EST)
On Fri, 24 Jan 2003 19:16:55 -0500 (EST) Sean Donelan <sean () donelan com> wrote:
Doesn't anyone else find it funny when people scream that ISPs should block ports and shoot people with misconfigured systems; yet when an ISP actually does enforce even a modest requirement; people start screaming how unfair or stupid that ISP is for doing that.
this isn't that simple. if folks had been enforcing something like this all along, then most everyone would have working rDNS and everything would be hunky dory. unfortunately, it didn't work this way. lots of people have broken or non-existent rDNS. some years ago, because of the correlation between no rDNS and spam, i tried a similar measure. the false positive rate was pretty impressive. my experiment only lasted a couple of days before i decided that it was unacceptably high. i don't think things are any better today. maybe att's decision will somehow make the net a better place if they stick to it. i won't bet against this. however, the transition period will be more painful than i think they realize. or perhaps they do realize how painful it will be and don't care. personally, i'd be happier if they'd focus on abuse problems on their own network. they don't seem to be doing much of a job of turfing spammers among their customer base. richard -- Richard Welty rwelty () averillpark net Averill Park Networking 518-573-7592 Unix, Linux, IP Network Engineering, Security
Current thread:
- att.net email issues? Jim Popovitch (Jan 23)
- RE: att.net email issues? Jim Popovitch (Jan 23)
- RE: att.net email issues? Andy Dills (Jan 24)
- Re: att.net email issues? kai (Jan 24)
- Re: att.net email issues? just me (Jan 24)
- Re: att.net email issues? Sean Donelan (Jan 24)
- Re: att.net email issues? Jack Bates (Jan 24)
- Re: att.net email issues? Chris Adams (Jan 24)
- Re[2]: att.net email issues? Richard Welty (Jan 24)
- Re: att.net email issues? kai (Jan 27)
- Re: att.net email issues? just me (Jan 27)
- RE: att.net email issues? Jim Popovitch (Jan 23)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- RE: att.net email issues? Jack McCarthy (Jan 24)