[geeks] Goodbye, I guess

[Mike Hebel]

On Aug 28, 2007, at 7:07 PM, Geoff Reed wrote:

> after reading the link you provided, the person running SORBS  
> sounds an awful
> lot like some idiot i had to deal with at a RBL several years ago,  
> the mail
> setup on the server I was administrator on would accept incoming  
> mail from
> anyone, but unless it was targetted to one of the domains that it  
> was mailhost
> for or one of the other systems it was specifically set to relay  
> to, it just
> dropped the message into /dev/null.
>
> I was informed that was not acceptable, to not get my server  
> blocked I had to
> reject any and all relay attempts (according to the luser running  
> the RBL)  I
> had unlimited incoming bandwidth at the time and found it amusing  
> to piss
> spammers off by bit-bucketing their emails.  He did not care that  
> my mail rules
> were routing non authorized emails to /dev/null.

blarsbl.org

A more unpleasant rbl I've never heard of.  He had my netblock listed  
much as he did others.

Thankfully it has long since gone by the wayside.

Mike Hebel
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