Barracuda Networks Spam Firewall

Tue May 18 22:31:42 UTC 2004

On Tue, 18 May 2004 Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu wrote:

: > Blocking outbound mail from such entities is a pretty good way to get
: > buy-in.  (Yes, there's a DNSBL in work to enumerate such systems.)
:
: When it gets built, will it list AOL.COM for not rejecting at the original
: RCPT TO?

AOL happens to be working with the anti-spam community by converting their
MXs to do reject-at-SMTP.  (See SPAM-L archives.  They're quite aware of the
problem and are in fact addressing it.)

: Or Hotmail.com?

Strange; I've received direct SMTP rejections from Hotmail plenty of times
recently.  Given the size of that entity, I'm sure the DNSBL admin in
question would try to work with them (and Hotmail admins have also shown
themselves on SPAM-L); but without any movement, yes, it'd be a candidate
for listing.

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-- Todd Vierling <tv at duh.org> <tv at pobox.com>