On Sun, 23 Mar 2003, Carlos just had to get this off his chest:
The 03.03.23 at 01:32, Theo v. Werkhoven wrote:
shop because blacks indisputably (in the USA, at least) commit crimes at a higher rate than other racial groups, never mind that in spite of the higher rate, the percentage of blacks who are criminals is small. IOW, your policy
Wrong analogy. The dynablock doesn't discriminate between ISP's, countries, etnics groups etc., it just says that dialup users should use another way to deliver the mail then directly.
We can't.
I have a few different mail accounts, from different ISPs. The smtp host of any of them rejects mail with the "from" of another provider - correctly, of course -. The only way left for us is to use our local sendmail or postfix to handle the delivery.
If you are going to say that I could set up different relay host depending on the "from", it wouldn't work the moment the provider notices the IP is from the "other" provider.
There is such a thing as pop-before-smtp, which normally allows you to use an ISPs mail server as long as you supply your authentication by popping first.
Instead, you could check whether the "from" domain is real, or use white lists.
Or spamassasin, that seems to catch most of the spam.
I'm already using just about every measure you can think of, dynablocking is/was (I disabled it to test) just one link in the chain. Theo -- Theo v. Werkhoven Registered Linux user# 99872 http://counter.li.org ICBM 52 13 27N , 4 29 45E. SuSE 8.0 x86 Kernel k_Athlon 2.4.19-4GB See headers for PGP/GPG info.