Text 174, 54 rader
Skriven 2005-01-09 14:59:41 av Frank Vest (1:124/6308.1)
    Kommentar till text 173 av mark lewis (1:3634/12)
Ärende: Fighting Spam
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On (08 Jan 05) mark lewis wrote to Frank Vest...

Hello mark,

 FV> My IP address is dynamic. More than once I've tried to send
 FV> mail only to find that my IP is blocked by a blacklist server
 FV> and I can't send or receive. A quick disconnect and reconnect
 FV> to my DSL fixed the problem. New IP address = no block,
 FV> sometimes. :)
 ml> yeah, see, you are using the old ways that the spammers have abused...
 ml> its called direct to destination rather than to your ISP's SMTP server
 ml> and let it forward it on... that what the description appears to be
 ml> saying, anyway... that is one method of blocking, too... these days,
 ml> it is better to send all your mail via your ISP's SMTP server and not
 ml> worry about your systems trying to connect directly to the
 ml> destination...

My server was blocking my outgoing and incoming.

At any rate, from what I read here, I'd best drop the BBS and all the
other services. If I start relaying through my ISP, they are likely to
start charging me more for my DSL and that will end a lot of things.
To get a static IP address is beyond my means. :(

It's kinda funny.... Relaying email is a method to cover spam and yet
it is best to relay email. :-))

 FV> Joe Jarred was one example. When he left, lots of people got
 FV> blocked.
 ml> when he left what/where? i know that he was highly involved with stuff
 ml> on both, fidonet and the internet... i also know that he stopped his
 ml> RBL service due to the spammers DDOSing him right off the network...

He has my sympathy for suffering those attacks. He has my spite for
blacklisting the whole damn intermess. From him, and others, I'm
learning that if someone kicks me once, I should beat the crap out of
them forever and ever, amen.

 FV> I'm sure that the airlines would have no problem if you
 FV> wanted to disassemble their plane and check for problems
 FV> before you boarded it. :)
 ml> hahaha... right...

I can see that you know everything. I'll just let this echo drop and
move on.

Regards,
Frank

http://pages.sbcglobal.net/flv
http://biseonline.com/r19

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