On Fri, Jan 26, 2007 at 07:38:09PM +0100, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: > > Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > > anecdotal support of exim.... > > > > > > andrew@basement:~$ telnet smtpauth.earthlink.net 25 > > > Trying 207.69.189.206... > > > Connected to smtpauth.earthlink.net. > > > Escape character is '^]'. > > > 220-elasmtp-spurfowl.atl.sa.earthlink.net ESMTP Exim 4.34 #1 Sat, 20 > > > Jan 2007 18:17:24 -0500 > > > > > > that's a pretty big operation using exim :) > > On 22.01.07 11:23, Paul Johnson wrote: > > In that case, Earthlink's retarded postmasters need to be shot, their > > Challenge-Response system ripped out by force, any backups containing the > > C|R system burned and scattered, and new guys who understand spamassassin > > and exim hired to do the job right. > > I've read the whole thread again, but I was unable to get this. Do I need > some exact experience with earthlink (except reporting many spams in usenet > 10 years ago) to get it? > Earthlink has a particularly egregious (sp?) C-R system that I think all their subscribers default to automatically. Or in any event its absurdly easy for them to turn it on. Thus earthlink puts out a huge amount of C-R spam... it can be annoying. I happen to have an earthlink email address for historic reasons and I can tell you that it is *too* easy to screw up and destroy email lists everywhere. I had a stupid qmail problem with one list I subscribe to so I switched my subscription to my earthlink account (which I rarely use and still had setup for C-R from years ago). The result was that I splattered C-R's all over the list (probably several hundred of them) in short order. I still cringe at the thought of it. A
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