On Wed, 7 Apr 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Whitelists that are address based are more insecure. It is not cheating at > all. The purpose of the DYNALIST feature in SORBS and others to detect large > bulk-spammers that hail form dynamic IPs that can't be easily shut-down. > Email from SquirrelMail is just not the case - it is a single user sending a > single user email. The fact that it came from a web-site is irrelevant. It > is like saying it is cheating to use your ISPs SMTP server - you should run > one yourself so that your home machine's PC's IP address appears.
My understanding of the DYNABLOCK list is that it has been created to target those DSL/cable modem users who are running their own email servers. It has been found that these are often misconfigured or open relays. These systems are the source for a large amount of grief (ie spam or network problems). DYNABLOCK is supported by many ISP's since running servers on their networks is often against their end user agreement. It is the ISP who takes the flames when people complain about garbage orginating from their ip blocks. Guess who's other users complain when the network is messed up. Also, it is not unknown for some residential DSL/cable modem users to offer email service for a fee in direct competition to their ISP. The SpamAssassin rules are not supposed to be triggered if mail is relayed through the ISP's mail server...just if it is sent directly to the internet. -- Gerry "The lyfe so short, the craft so long to learne" Chaucer ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click -- squirrelmail-users mailing list List Address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] List Archives: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_id=2995 List Info: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/squirrelmail-users
