From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: SMTP+SPF (was: [9fans] Re: new release?) From: Charles Forsyth In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 08:06:04 +0000 Topicbox-Message-UUID: f89606f4-eacc-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 >>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.