Re: RBL report..
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It is rumored that on 26-Mar-2000 Nils Jeppe wrote:
> On Sun, 26 Mar 2000, Mark Brown wrote:
>
>> ORBS also blacklist sites for other reasons, such as if their probes are
>> firewalled out. This will, for example, catch sites that automatically
>> firewall out sites that attempt to relay through them - the site notices
>> the first check, blocks the rest and gets added to the list.
>
> Well I didn't know that, however, that's a pretty redundant thing to do -
> afterall, you can just disable relaying alltogether and be done with
> it. ;-)
If you are on a 64K line and get hit by a spam blast from some well known
providers only the rejects fill your line completely.
Unfortunately I have seen this quite afew times and been hit a few years ago by
it a few times.
So this is actually a good policy. Though if you are smart enough to configure
something like this yous hould be smart enough to make it avoid the orbs wrath
;-)
[snip]
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Anton R. Ivanov
IP Engineer Level3 Communications
RIPE: ARI2-RIPE E-Mail: Anton Ivanov <aivanov@eu.level3.net>
@*** Sociology's Iron Law of Oligarchy ***
In every organized activity, no matter the sphere,
a small number will become the oligarchial leaders
and the others will follow.
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