Re: spam from chinanet
On Wed, 15 Sep 2004, martin f krafft wrote:
> also sprach Don Armstrong <don@donarmstrong.com> [2004.09.15.1200 +0200]:
> > Can you state unequivocally that there are no present or future
> > users, developers, or other people who would legitimately mail
> > debian.org that use Chinanet?
>
> They should use their smarthosts.
I guess that means that you can't state it unequivocally. [And it's
not like upstream SMTP servers don't get added to RBLs... the one I'm
using from here has been added a few times.]
> > That being said, I personally see no reason not to use RBLs that
> > include such ips to increase the spamassassin score of messages...
> > but placement on RBLs should never be enough to cause a message to
> > be get a hard reject from Debian mailing lists or d.o.
>
> And I find it unacceptable that debian.org machines relay spam.
I don't like the idea of it either, but allowing some spam through is
better than arbitrarily blocking legitimate messages based solely on
the netblock of their origin.
Don Armstrong
--
Il semble que la perfection soit atteinte non quand il n'y a plus rien
a ajouter, mais quand il n'y a plus rien a retrancher.
(Perfection is apparently not achieved when nothing more can be added,
but when nothing else can be removed.)
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupe'ry, Terres des Hommes
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