At 19:03 05.09.98 -0700, you wrote:
bouncing. I found out the sysadmin my then ISP was totally filtering out that domain without even bothering to tell the customers. I
A local College is filtering *all* mail from AOL and a couple of other providers, for the very same reason. :)
by spammers using them to forge a return address that doesn't in fact exist, I hate to see legitimate mail get bounced merely by association.
Yeah have to agree here. Most people don't have a choice but use free mailers (for example family members who share one internet account), plus in theory it's nice to have an address that you can keep when switching providers. Spamming is a problem that can't be solved by rigorous filtering, it can only be solved if admins deal harshly with offenders and kill their accounts immediately. Someone should build a "blacklist" of known spammers <eg>..... when an ISP kills a spammer account, they list them in the spammer-db and the next isp can easily check the db. "No, sorry, but we don't give spammers accounts." Okay...I am rambling ;) <A HREF="http://privat.schlund.de/bartmoss/"><A HREF="http://privat.schlund.de/bartmoss/</A">http://privat.schlund.de/bartmoss/</A</A>> ICQ UIN: 3322540 - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e