-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 09:18:30AM -0600, Dawes, Stephen wrote: > Why is it that DNS servers > can remain up-to-date at no cost to these users, but black lists cannot > implement a similar means of keeping themselves current? It is because dns can make or break the internet literally, while blacklists wouldn't have such an enormous impact. > I agree that I can go to my ISP and try to get my IP address removed > from the black list, but I argue that I shouldn't have to, Yes, and since I'm not a spammer, my out-bound smtp should be wide open, and my ISP shouldn't be instituting this port 25 blocking policy, simply because they have had spam coming from their network in the past, and are now blocking out-bound smtp to anything other then their servers, to force users to send mail through the ISP's mail servers, so that it can be caught if it is spam, and eliminated before it causes trouble. I too agree that the internet should be a wide-open community where we can just turn the knob, and walk into someone's house so to speak, knowing that the door won't be locked. However, spammers and other wrong-doers have ruined the internet for us, and those are the people that should be taking the blame, not system administrators who have identified the source of trouble coming to their systems, and have taken precautions to make sure that this trouble won't cause them a head ache. Greg - -- Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager at EU.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFA2bj97s9z/XlyUyARAummAJ0YmrHk9sS4E/nqeHrl6M8vj9dnEACg0ppa 4FotXx6rCD1NA6BgrIMYa+g= =iPw5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
