RBL Update (Re: Lets go vixie!! rbl)

Mon Jun 22 20:22:36 UTC 1998

Attached is an example of how hotmail blocks outgoing spam mail
to help you in your determinations and their abuse policy of spam

Henry

Paul Mansfield wrote:

> On Thu, 18 Jun 1998, Richard Welty wrote:
> >
> > ethical sysadmins/isps, of course, inform their users of the RBL regardless.
> >
>
> we use Exim (http://www.exim.org) to handle mail, and we don't block on RBL
> active, but there's a standard setting to add a header to indicate that the
> mail was received from an RBL'd host... thus allowing our customers to
> filter if they want.
>
> has anyone ever heard of an ISP blocking their own customer if their customer
> is in the RBL? I'd love to hear a telephone call between ISP and customer if
> this occurred!!!
>
> Paul
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> :wq

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