From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: George Michaelson To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Cc: forsyth@terzarima.net Subject: Re: SMTP+SPF (was: [9fans] Re: new release?) Message-Id: <20040226180658.019f5ce8@garlic> In-Reply-To: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 18:06:58 +1000 Topicbox-Message-UUID: f8a4655a-eacc-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 On Thu, 26 Feb 2004 08:06:04 0000 Charles Forsyth wrote: >>>For example, my home IP (from which I'm composing this email right >>>now) is banned from MAPS, probably due to the previous owner, > >it's probably looking at a list maintained by yet another group of >self-appointed officious self-righteous characters, that blocks >all dynamically-assigned addresses without realising that there >is a big practical difference between those addresses (like mine) >that are dynamically allocated once and then remain attached to the same >location as long as they aren't unused for ages, and those addresses >that are dynamically allocated on each call (which are probably >more attractive to spammers). i call them officious and self-righteous >because there's no reasonable way to get a block of addresses >removed from the list unless (in my case) i am ntl: >which i am not. i call them self-appointed, because they are. >of course, no one makes the receiving mail systems look at those >lists, so the fault is spread somewhat. -- George Michaelson | APNIC Email: ggm@apnic.net | PO Box 2131 Milton QLD 4064 Phone: +61 7 3858 3150 | Australia Fax: +61 7 3858 3199 | http://www.apnic.net