And a very large group of real people. This is not the way to go.

- John Schieferle Uhlenbrock



-----Original Message-----
From: current-users-owner@NetBSD.org =
[mailto:current-users-owner@NetBSD.org]
On Behalf Of Peter Seebach
Sent: Sonntag, 22. Februar 2004 14:22
To: current-users@NetBSD.org
Subject: Re: Spam suggestion...=20


In message <20040222131528.GK11328@phaeton.entropie.net>, Martin Weber
writes:
>I.e. lock out anyone with a private network who happened to name her=20
>machines as she liked, and didn't have the money to buy a global name?=20
>This sounds microsoftish :) (Or those who happened to name their=20
>private network, but were not quick enough to buy the domain, and thus=20
>their name is resolvable yet points to another IP, like in my case=20
>[entropie.net])

No problem.  HELO as your real address.

>Sorry, but this brutal scalpel method doesn't really help us.

Yes, it does.  There is no sysadmin incapable of providing valid reverse
DNS, and this simple filter gets rid of a very large quantity of spam.

-s