Paul Johnson wrote: > Like a growing number of admins, I'm sick of playing nice guy with > ISPs who harbor spammers. You spam, everyone you serve suffers. That sort of "intentional collateral damage" strategy never works; not on the net, not in the real world. You hurt yourself more than you hurt anyone else, and other people, even if they notice that you're rejecting their mail, just get annoyed with you and file you under "asshole". At the risk of starting a political flamewar, observe that the most prominent examples of "intentional collateral damage" in the non-Internet world today are the sanctions against Iraq and Israeli policy in the occupied territories. Note that after ten years of sanctions, Saddam Hussein's grip on power is as strong as ever; and thirty years after the occupation of the West Bank and Gaza, terrorism in Israel is worse than ever. "Intentional collateral damage" has clearly not been successful, and in the long term will probably be seen to have only made things worse all around. RBLs are not a solution to the spam problem; they are themselves a problem. Content-based filtering, when done well a la spamassassin, is a much better approach. Even then, automatic bouncing is irresponsible. Craig
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