--On June 26, 2006 3:55:21 PM +0100 John Kelly <jak@isp2dial.com> wrote:
On Mon, 26 Jun 2006 10:46:15 +0200, scholler@fnb.tu-darmstadt.de (Christoph Ulrich Scholler) wrote:On 20.06. 02:15, John Kelly wrote:I'll gladly sacrifice 20% of "legit" mail to stop 99.5% of all SPAM.
It's nowhere near 99.5%. Especially when you consider all of the blocking I do based on *.adsl.* or *.dsl.* or (dynamicsomething).comcast.net etc. catches a LOT of ratware running from machines with valid rDNS.
I am amazed. If everybody thought (and configured their mail servers) like this, one in every five legitimate emails would be undeliverable. In order to communicate reliably, I would have to resend every fifth email from a different mail host.No, that's false. 100% of mail originating from servers having proper DNS will succeed. If you can't set up proper DNS, then you will suffer. But why should I share in your suffering?
Yup this is correct. It's not like 20% of your outgoing mail will not get there, it either will or it won't.
If everybody would get tough, like me, the clueless admins might get a clue.If everybody would get tough, like you, email will die.No, but the clueless admins will become extinct. And good riddance.
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