Re: dnsbl's? - an informal survey

["Mr. James W. Laferriere" <babydr () baby-dragons com>]

        Hello Jack ,

On Fri, 30 May 2003, Jack Bates wrote:
> 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.
        White listing is NOT what was being discussed .  Tho is can be
        adventagous in the right circumstances .

> 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.
        And neither was Static addressing .  Filtering was being discussed
        based on some unknown (to me probably others as well) methodology .
                Twyl ,  JimL
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