[Gllug] SPEWS (and Squid)

[David Damerell]

On Tuesday, 3 Jun 2003, t.clarke wrote:
>>From my perspective:
>b) a reasonable approach  by Spews would surely be simply to block the precise
>'offending' IP addresses, not a whole range of them

That would be ideal for a spam haven ISP - continue to host spammers,
but don't have your non-spamming customers annoyed.

>d) I suspect that many sysadmins that subscribe to Spews may not
>necessarily be aware that it blocks whole IP ranges in this manner. I
>was certainly considering 
>the possibility of using a blacklist  (hadn't got very far down the road with
>my researches) and I naively assumed that such services only blacked specific
>known open-relays.

But as you would know from 5 minutes persual of the SPEWS FAQ, they
are not an open relay listing service at all.

I suppose I should not be surprised that most of the people posting to
this thread have not actually bothered to discover the basic facts
involved.

-- 
David Damerell <damerell at chiark.greenend.org.uk> flcl?


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