Thread: OT: mail server blocked
Bruce, I replied to your post and my mail was blocked by your spam filter. Is it blocking Wanadoo? TIA Tony Grant -- www.tgds.net Library management software toolkit, redhat linux on Sony Vaio C1XD, Dreamweaver MX with Tomcat and PostgreSQL
Yes, I block wanadoo.fr. Should I unblock it? I have it marked as 'cronic' because i get lots of spam from there. Can I white-list only your username? --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tony Grant wrote: > Bruce, > > I replied to your post and my mail was blocked by your spam filter. > > Is it blocking Wanadoo? > > TIA > > Tony Grant > -- > www.tgds.net Library management software toolkit, > redhat linux on Sony Vaio C1XD, > Dreamweaver MX with Tomcat and PostgreSQL > > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- > TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command > (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to majordomo@postgresql.org) > -- Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us pgman@candle.pha.pa.us | (610) 359-1001 + If your life is a hard drive, | 13 Roberts Road + Christ can be your backup. | Newtown Square, Pennsylvania 19073
What would be a more friendly blocking message would be an invitation to be on the white list. I've seen a very slowly increasing trend for that. My prognostication talent says this is the wave of the future. Bruce Momjian wrote: > Yes, I block wanadoo.fr. Should I unblock it? I have it marked as > 'cronic' because i get lots of spam from there. Can I white-list only > your username? > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Tony Grant wrote: > >>Bruce, >> >>I replied to your post and my mail was blocked by your spam filter. >> >>Is it blocking Wanadoo? >> >>TIA >> >>Tony Grant >>-- >>www.tgds.net Library management software toolkit, >>redhat linux on Sony Vaio C1XD, >>Dreamweaver MX with Tomcat and PostgreSQL >> >> >>---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- >>TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command >> (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to majordomo@postgresql.org) >> > >
On Tuesday, April 15, 2003, at 03:41 PM, Dennis Gearon wrote: > What would be a more friendly blocking message would be an invitation > to be on the white list. I've seen a very slowly increasing trend for > that. My prognostication talent says this is the wave of the future. I'm sure most spammers would *love* to be invited onto whitelists! If they can automate being added, even better! :-) Personally, I block with bl.spamcop.net, so it's dynamic based on who is sending spam "right now" (or in the last 48 hours).... wanadoo IP's show up all the time, but it's not a network-wide-block. <soapbox> Or, even better: get an ISP who's not spam-friendly? I'm frustrated that users of spam-friendly ISP's somehow think it's the problem of the black/whitelist, or a problem at the recipient's end, since the *source* of the problem is at the ISP who thinks nothing of polluting the internet with 419 scams, donkey porn, and herbal viagra. Get a good ISP, and never worry about being blacklisted again! </soapbox> > Bruce Momjian wrote: >> Yes, I block wanadoo.fr. Should I unblock it? I have it marked as >> 'cronic' because i get lots of spam from there. Can I white-list only >> your username? >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> ----- >> Tony Grant wrote: >>> Bruce, >>> I replied to your post and my mail was blocked by your spam filter. >>> Is it blocking Wanadoo? >>> TIA -Ronabop Ronald Chmara Ronin Professional Consulting LLC 520-326-6109 "Everything's running smoothly." --Hal.
On Tuesday 15 April 2003 15:55, Ronald Chmara scribed: > On Tuesday, April 15, 2003, at 03:41 PM, Dennis Gearon wrote: > > What would be a more friendly blocking message would be an > > invitation to be on the white list. I've seen a very slowly > > increasing trend for that. My prognostication talent says this is > > the wave of the future. > > I'm sure most spammers would *love* to be invited onto whitelists! If > they can automate being added, even better! :-) > > Personally, I block with bl.spamcop.net, so it's dynamic based on who > is sending spam "right now" (or in the last 48 hours).... wanadoo IP's > show up all the time, but it's not a network-wide-block. > > <soapbox> > Or, even better: get an ISP who's not spam-friendly? I'm frustrated > that users of spam-friendly ISP's somehow think it's the problem of > the black/whitelist, or a problem at the recipient's end, since the > *source* of the problem is at the ISP who thinks nothing of polluting > the internet with 419 scams, donkey porn, and herbal viagra. > > Get a good ISP, and never worry about being blacklisted again! > </soapbox> > Get a good ISP, and never worry about being blacklisted again! Speaking of getting "good ISP"! *Too bad* the PostgreSQL folks use the "blackest" of Black Hat ISP's => rackspace ie: http://www.spamhaus.org/sbl/listings.lasso?isp=rackspace.com I also use Spamcop's RBL.. but I got so sick of the spew from rackspace I added the following blacklist.. => rackspace.blackholes.us guess what... all my PostgreSQL mail lists stopped.. as they are hosted on rackspew... ie: 64.49.215.129 64.49.215.143 64.49.215.8 To keep my postgresql mail coming I did something I almost never do.. 64.49.215.129:allow,RBLSMTPD="" 64.49.215.143:allow,RBLSMTPD="" 64.49.215.8:allow,RBLSMTPD="" ethically doing business with them is wrong and really is contributing the the overall degradation of the Internet, as they make out like they are the Holy "Grail" of ISP's.. yet they are nothing more than a place for scumbag SPAMMER's to do busines. Please consider finding a new place to host your stuff... as these people should not have the support of your company. -- "For my own part, I never trust anything that's closed source. It's said that the true test of a person's character is what they do when nobody's looking. Speaking solely for myself, I am not inclined to put much faith in the character of people I do not know." Jay D. D. Security-Basics List <security-basics@securityfocus.com> Mon, 25 Nov 2002
On Tue, Apr 15, 2003 at 03:41:24PM -0700, Dennis Gearon wrote: > What would be a more friendly blocking message would be an invitation to be > on the white list. I've seen a very slowly increasing trend for that. My > prognostication talent says this is the wave of the future. I say stop using blacklists and start using bayesian spam classifiers (recent SpamAssasin for example). It's more costly because you have to filter mail coming from known spammers, but you get much less false positives. You also have to train it. I actually filter all my pgsql lists, plus some spanish lists, through one we made, and get 5-6 false negatives a day (spam as non-spam), and 3-4 false positives a week (non-spam as spam). 30-40 spam messages are correctly detected daily. I dunno how much "real" email, but around 100 or 120 I think. With a well-written classifier the scores are better; this one is more of an experiment, and it rarely gets feedback (good ones feed every message into scorefiles). -- Alvaro Herrera (<alvherre[a]dcc.uchile.cl>) La web junta la gente porque no importa que clase de mutante sexual seas, tienes millones de posibles parejas. Pon "buscar gente que tengan sexo con ciervos incendiánse", y el computador dirá "especifique el tipo de ciervo" (Jason Alexander)
We run spamassassin 2.52 on all our servers, and I know that when I get it re-enabled on teh pgsql-* lists, the amount of spam that got into the moderators queue drop'd considerably .... On Tue, 15 Apr 2003, Alvaro Herrera wrote: > On Tue, Apr 15, 2003 at 03:41:24PM -0700, Dennis Gearon wrote: > > What would be a more friendly blocking message would be an invitation to be > > on the white list. I've seen a very slowly increasing trend for that. My > > prognostication talent says this is the wave of the future. > > I say stop using blacklists and start using bayesian spam classifiers > (recent SpamAssasin for example). It's more costly because you have to > filter mail coming from known spammers, but you get much less false > positives. You also have to train it. > > I actually filter all my pgsql lists, plus some spanish lists, through > one we made, and get 5-6 false negatives a day (spam as non-spam), and > 3-4 false positives a week (non-spam as spam). 30-40 spam messages are > correctly detected daily. I dunno how much "real" email, but around 100 > or 120 I think. With a well-written classifier the scores are better; > this one is more of an experiment, and it rarely gets feedback (good > ones feed every message into scorefiles). > > -- > Alvaro Herrera (<alvherre[a]dcc.uchile.cl>) > La web junta la gente porque no importa que clase de mutante sexual seas, > tienes millones de posibles parejas. Pon "buscar gente que tengan sexo con > ciervos incendiánse", y el computador dirá "especifique el tipo de ciervo" > (Jason Alexander) > > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- > TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? > > http://archives.postgresql.org > > Marc G. Fournier ICQ#7615664 IRC Nick: Scrappy Systems Administrator @ hub.org primary: scrappy@hub.org secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org
d0p7heidumd4j02@sneakemail.com writes:
> *Too bad* the PostgreSQL folks use the "blackest" of Black Hat ISP's
> => rackspace
The good news: Marc is leaving rackspace.
The bad news: he's moving to some colo in Panama. Keep an eye on
your filters ...
regards, tom lane
>Yes, I block wanadoo.fr. Should I unblock it? yes, too broad, and mostly wrong target. I find the spam is from their "abo" PTR sub/domains so block by MTA IP with PTR domain (and child domains) of abo.wanadoo.fr. "abo" = abonne = subscriber = dialup + DSL ... leaving, eg, smtp.wanadoo.fr, their SMTP servers, acceptable. Len _____________________________________________________________________ http://MenAndMice.com/DNS-training: San Jose; Denver; New York; Seattle IMGate.MEIway.com: anti-spam gateway, effective on 1000's of sites, free
On Wed, 2003-04-16 at 00:02, Bruce Momjian wrote: > Yes, I block wanadoo.fr. Should I unblock it? I have it marked as > 'cronic' because i get lots of spam from there. Can I white-list only > your username? There was a DNS problem or your filter is very good. The mail was sent by mail.tgds.net - the machine connected to mail.tgds.net is on a Wanadoo aDSL account. There is no smtp server at the Wanadoo address. Cheers Tony Grant -- www.tgds.net Library management software toolkit, redhat linux on Sony Vaio C1XD, Dreamweaver MX with Tomcat and PostgreSQL
On Wed, 2003-04-16 at 00:55, Ronald Chmara wrote: > <soapbox> > Or, even better: get an ISP who's not spam-friendly? I'm frustrated > that users of spam-friendly ISP's somehow think it's the problem of the > black/whitelist, or a problem at the recipient's end, since the > *source* of the problem is at the ISP who thinks nothing of polluting > the internet with 419 scams, donkey porn, and herbal viagra. > > Get a good ISP, and never worry about being blacklisted again! > </soapbox> Wanadoo was the only provider of aDSL until very recently. Some of us don't have the luxury of choosing their ISP. I have just signed with 9telecom and am waiting (like thousands of others) to have my account activated. They are 15 EUR/$ cheaper per month and they will soon be offering 1024 Mb aDSL for less that the 512 Mb I have now. You can bet that at that price you will soon be blocking spam from their domaine as well as Wanadoo... Cheers Tony Grant -- www.tgds.net Library management software toolkit, redhat linux on Sony Vaio C1XD, Dreamweaver MX with Tomcat and PostgreSQL
My company is an ISP and over the next couple of month we're going to be testing some satellite based IP services (including internet and VPNs). If you (or anyone else) is interested I can add you to our list of interest parties. The service we're going to roll out is going to be geared more to businesses and "power users" so I'm going to try and make it as flexible as possible while maintaining the strict security environment we have now. Just putting it out there... Quoting Tony Grant <tony@tgds.net>: > On Wed, 2003-04-16 at 00:55, Ronald Chmara wrote: > > > <soapbox> > > Or, even better: get an ISP who's not spam-friendly? I'm frustrated > > that users of spam-friendly ISP's somehow think it's the problem of the > > black/whitelist, or a problem at the recipient's end, since the > > *source* of the problem is at the ISP who thinks nothing of polluting > > the internet with 419 scams, donkey porn, and herbal viagra. > > > > Get a good ISP, and never worry about being blacklisted again! > > </soapbox> > > Wanadoo was the only provider of aDSL until very recently. Some of us > don't have the luxury of choosing their ISP. > > I have just signed with 9telecom and am waiting (like thousands of > others) to have my account activated. They are 15 EUR/$ cheaper per > month and they will soon be offering 1024 Mb aDSL for less that the 512 > Mb I have now. > > You can bet that at that price you will soon be blocking spam from their > domaine as well as Wanadoo... > > Cheers > > Tony Grant > -- > www.tgds.net Library management software toolkit, > redhat linux on Sony Vaio C1XD, > Dreamweaver MX with Tomcat and PostgreSQL > > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- > TIP 5: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? > > http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faqs/FAQ.html > -- Keith C. Perry Director of Networks & Applications VCSN, Inc. http://vcsn.com ____________________________________ This email account is being host by: VCSN, Inc : http://vcsn.com
I personally think the approach of blocking entire ISP is stupid. I've been unable to send Tom mail for quite some time (and others on this list) because all of XO.com is block. We have a rack in their chicago datacenters with all our own equipment that's managed by us. With all the spam being sent from everywhere, i'm amazed people who take this approach don't just block 100% of their mail from everwhere and never get another email. This idea of good / bad ISP is a little misquided when you come down to the practicality of things. On Wednesday, April 16, 2003, at 01:02 AM, Tony Grant wrote: > On Wed, 2003-04-16 at 00:55, Ronald Chmara wrote: > >> <soapbox> >> Or, even better: get an ISP who's not spam-friendly? I'm frustrated >> that users of spam-friendly ISP's somehow think it's the problem of >> the >> black/whitelist, or a problem at the recipient's end, since the >> *source* of the problem is at the ISP who thinks nothing of polluting >> the internet with 419 scams, donkey porn, and herbal viagra. >> >> Get a good ISP, and never worry about being blacklisted again! >> </soapbox> > > Wanadoo was the only provider of aDSL until very recently. Some of us > don't have the luxury of choosing their ISP. > > I have just signed with 9telecom and am waiting (like thousands of > others) to have my account activated. They are 15 EUR/$ cheaper per > month and they will soon be offering 1024 Mb aDSL for less that the 512 > Mb I have now. > > You can bet that at that price you will soon be blocking spam from > their > domaine as well as Wanadoo... > > Cheers > > Tony Grant > -- > www.tgds.net Library management software toolkit, > redhat linux on Sony Vaio C1XD, > Dreamweaver MX with Tomcat and PostgreSQL > > > ---------------------------(end of > broadcast)--------------------------- > TIP 5: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? > > http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faqs/FAQ.html > -- Vote for MobyGames under the Game category at http://www.webbyawards.com/peoplesvoice/
On Tuesday 15 April 2003 22:59, Tom Lane tgl-at-sss.pgh.pa.us |postgresql| scribed: > d0p7heidumd4j02@sneakemail.com writes: > > *Too bad* the PostgreSQL folks use the "blackest" of Black Hat ISP's > > => rackspace > > The good news: Marc is leaving rackspace. > > The bad news: he's moving to some colo in Panama. Keep an eye on > your filters ... The sad fact being that the majority of the SPAM orginates in the good old USA. Mainly from companies such as rackspace, verio, eli, level3, charter.. sigh one could go on. So moving to a colo in Panama would be an improvement over rackspew. :-)