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Re: Every spam is sacred



On Mon, 16 Jun 2003 16:18:49 +1000, Russell Coker <russell@coker.com.au> said: 

> On Mon, 16 Jun 2003 15:06, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
>> > There is no excuse for this.  Access to servers that are not in
>> > spam lists is well available to Debian developers.  I tunnel my
>> > outgoing mail through a server in Melbourne no matter where I am,
>> > this avoids all issues of spam blocking by IP address.  I offered
>> > accounts on a choice of machines to be used for such purposes for
>> > any Debian developers who have no better options, but so far
>> > no-one has taken me up on this offer.
>>
>> I refuse to allow spammers this victory. My machines are fully
>> capable members of the internet, and I deliver my own email. My
>> philosophy is that if people drop mail from me due to incompetence
>> (since setting up machines to classify email from me as spam is
>> indeed a misconfiguration), then I have no real desire to impose my
>> musings on them.

> If your machines are fully capable then they will have permanent IP
> addresses and no spam ever coming from them.  In which case they
> will never get listed in a DNSBL (*) and there is nothing to be
> concerned about.

	They are, when I send mail from home, or when I trael to the
 office. However, I often send mail from the road (or the internet
 cafe) where dhcp often rules. 

	manoj
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