Re: Unusual spam recently - hummm

[Rick Moen <rick@linuxmafia.com>]

Quoting Phillip Hofmeister (plhofmei@zionlth.org):

> On Thu, 03 Jun 2004 at 12:57:46PM -0400, Alvin Oga wrote:
> > 	- email from easqtl@qwest.net should be bounced since
> > 	its not coming from bresnan.net 
> 
> This is a bad suggestion.  My ISP requires us (by blocking port 25
> outbound) to use their SMTP server.  Therefore I cannot connect to the
> normal SMTP Server for the zionlth.org domain.  Implementing your
> suggestion wide spread would cause my emails (and all emails from people
> in my situation) to be rejected just because their ISP has their head on
> backwards and thinks blocking port 25 outbound will reduce spam abuse.

http://spf.pobox.com/srs.html
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=7328

(Tell your ISP:  "Adapt or die."  ;->  )

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Rick Moen
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