[Gllug] RBL listed hosts

[Xander D Harkness]

I have just been tightening up spam policies and switching a number of 
mailservers from warn mode to reject on rbl has a very dramtic effect.

i.e. I lose a lot of mail from companies such as BT and NTL.

This is not from their dial-up pool, but from the main corporate servers.

Aside from these niggling little concerns (I have always thought BT 
provides a realy poor service) it grabs a huge amount of spam.

I have a couple of questions:

Do BT know?  Or are they as incompetent as I expect them to be.

I really would like to reject rather than filter as 99% of the users are 
not paid enough to want to set up filters.  (When I spoke to them about 
emailing 10-15Mb M$ Word documents I received the response, "I am paid 
ten grand a year, I am not paid enough to do anything else!".  That was 
pretty much the end of the conversation as they were concerned.

Do the large companies with RBL listed hosts ever get round to fixing 
them?  This is something that I have not been aware of; however I am 
sure with a few more servers on reject rather than warn they might be 
convinced :-)

In addition I have to have the multihop RBL in warn otherwise I lose 
gllug posts :-)

Kind regards
Xander


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