Re: Spammer by incompetence, RBL may be an option

[Robert Waldner <Waldner@KPNQwest.at>]

The RBL is for spammers, that is, UCE (Unsolicited Commercial Email), 
 UBE (Unsolicited Bulk Email), also, fraud (mailbombing etc) is 
 sometimes considered spam.

It is *not* intended for misconfigured/-programmed mailers, nor a list 
 of open relays (ORBS http://www.orbs.org/ is doing that).

Read http://maps.vix.com/rbl/candidacy.html .

So, the RBL is simply the wrong place for something like that.

Also the RBL is used throughout the internet for *blackholing* all 
 IP-connectivity from spammers. If you misconfigured your MTA (or 
 simply chose a, say, "broken", one), what would you say if you were 
 cut off from ~ 40 % of the internet, as would be the effect if you 
 were RBLed?

I sent a (friendly) message to the postmaster at my.netvigator.com 
 already, informing them of the problem and pointing out directions to 
 fix it. You may want to do the same.

cheers,
&rw

>On 20-Sep-2000 Osamu Aoki wrote:
>> I hate stupid MTA causing this problem.  I like idea to kick out
>> my.netvigator.com (looks like chinese free e-mail account.  I can not
>> read chinese) from internet mail system.
>> 
>> I understand debian ML can not do that. It may be best to report this 



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