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Re: Spamassasin over RBL, was Re: rblsmtpd -t?]



On Fri, 3 May 2002 19:05, Chris Evans wrote:
> Now I'm suddenly getting two apparently separate (qwest.net and
> kornet.net) IP addresses (well, several within each domain's IP
> space) trying to relay through me at 20 minute intervals.
>
> I've reported qwest.net to them and don't see any point with
> kornet.net as I've never had a reply from any of my umpteen spam
> reports to them.  However, made me wonder if there was a service like
> abuse.net/spamcop that one can send the traces of such attempts to so
> that the sending IPs get reported and rbled if the volume goes up
> enough.

What's the point in having an RBL of sites trying to abuse open relays?  If a 
machine is correctly configured it won't allow relaying so this isn't needed. 
If a machine is broken enough to allow relaying then it probably doesn't have 
RBL support.

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