Re: *****SPAM***** Geode driver question

[Luca Olivetti <luca@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

 Confirmed once more: black lists are unreliable, useless against
 spam and harmful to legitimate email.



don't be naive.  my own email server was listed in ORDB since it
allowed

  <user%domain@mydomain@>


duh

$ telnet 66.180.226.5 smtp
Trying 66.180.226.5...
Connected to 66.180.226.5 (66.180.226.5).
Escape character is '^]'.
220 ns1.protagonist.com ESMTP Sendmail 8.11.0/8.8.7; Thu, 12 Dec 2002 
12:01:28 -0800
mail from: <luca@xxxxxxxxxxx>
250 2.1.0 <luca@xxxxxxxxxxx>... Sender ok
rcpt to: <luca%ventoso.org@xxxxxxxxx@>
551 5.7.1 we do not relay
rcpt to: <luca%ventoso.org@xxxxxxxxx>
551 5.7.1 we do not relay
quit
221 2.0.0 ns1.protagonist.com closing connection
Connection closed by foreign host.
$ host -t mx anuff.com
anuff.com mail is handled by 10 mail.anuff.com.
$ host mail.anuff.com
mail.anuff.com has address 66.180.226.5

--
Luca Olivetti
Note.- This message reached you today, it may not tomorrow if you
are using MAPS services. They arbitrarily include in their lists
IP addresses not related in any way to spam, and in so doing are
disrupting Internet connectivity.  Please stop supporting them.
See http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/05/21/1944247
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