[linux-audio-dev] Re: Blocking rima-tde.net, was Re: *****SPAM***** [linux-audio-dev] WINNING NOTIFICATION

[Joern Nettingsmeier]

Ismael Valladolid Torres wrote:
> El lunes,  8 de septiembre de 2003, a las 11:33, Dan Hollis escribe:
> 
>>It's time to just block rima-tde.net, they don't care about their spam and 
>>they won't do anything about the nigerian criminals infesting their 
>>networks.
> 
> 
> Blocking rima-tde.net, maybe you will be blocking almost all spanish
> DSL users, including myself. I have my own DSL connection, and SMTP
> running on my computer. I could spam the entire world without using my
> provider's smarthost. Please, think twice about this.

as a sidenote, it is *strongly* discouraged to run your own smtp server 
on a dynamic ip address that you don't exclusively own. i know it's nice 
to roll your own just for the hack value, but any responsible smtp admin 
out there should block *any and all* mails coming from known dialup 
address pools.

if you can't keep your own sender address when using your isp's relay, 
you should either raise hell with their support, switch providers or 
ssh-tunnel into another network you have access to and use their smtp 
(univiersity networks come to mind). if all this is not an option, you 
are out of luck, but still: don't run your own smtp.


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