Thread: will an honest French ISP please stand up
OK "honest" and "French" in the same subject is a bit of provocation. We all know they are weasels... I just changed to 9telecom with the same result as Wanadoo when I mailed Bruce. Please tell me where I can find an ISP that has aDSL at under 30 EURO / month and who isn't blocked by your spam filters. Of course you are all blocking AOL, MSN, Prodigy and other US ISPs? No? Why not? That is where all my spam comes from! You have a filter on all domains ending in .cn? If you are just blocking French ISPs je vous dis merde, aller vous faire... </soapbox> Tony Grant -- www.tgds.net Library management software toolkit, redhat linux on Sony Vaio C1XD, Dreamweaver MX with Tomcat and PostgreSQL
Trust me if I could block AOL, MSN, Yahoo and have of the asian IP block I would. Too many people here us IPs that allow their client to spam. They all should be able "black holed" IMHO. Quoting Tony Grant <tony@tgds.net>: > OK "honest" and "French" in the same subject is a bit of provocation. We > all know they are weasels... > > I just changed to 9telecom with the same result as Wanadoo when I mailed > Bruce. > > Please tell me where I can find an ISP that has aDSL at under 30 EURO / > month and who isn't blocked by your spam filters. > > Of course you are all blocking AOL, MSN, Prodigy and other US ISPs? No? > Why not? That is where all my spam comes from! You have a filter on all > domains ending in .cn? > > If you are just blocking French ISPs je vous dis merde, aller vous > faire... > > </soapbox> > > 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 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate > subscribe-nomail command to majordomo@postgresql.org so that your > message can get through to the mailing list cleanly > -- Keith C. Perry Director of Networks & Applications VCSN, Inc. http://vcsn.com ____________________________________ This email account is being host by: VCSN, Inc : http://vcsn.com
Tony Grant <tony@tgds.net> writes:
> I just changed to 9telecom with the same result as Wanadoo when I mailed
> Bruce.
> Please tell me where I can find an ISP that has aDSL at under 30 EURO /
> month and who isn't blocked by your spam filters.
I can't speak for what Bruce is filtering, but judging from this message
to the list, your European address is irrelevant. The mail is actually
getting delivered from apps.tgds.net [212.100.226.141]. The blacklist
I use blocks that address because it belongs to rackspace.
regards, tom lane
Network Administrator <netadmin@vcsn.com> writes: > Trust me if I could block AOL, MSN, Yahoo and have of the asian IP block I > would. If you can use a DNS-style blacklist, see http://www.five-ten-sg.com/blackhole.php --- they do block large chunks of the far east, which is why I use 'em ;-) regards, tom lane
En un mensaje anterior, Tom Lane escribió: > Network Administrator <netadmin@vcsn.com> writes: > > Trust me if I could block AOL, MSN, Yahoo and have of the asian IP block I > > would. > > If you can use a DNS-style blacklist, see > http://www.five-ten-sg.com/blackhole.php --- they do block large chunks > of the far east, which is why I use 'em ;-) I've been using ASK for a while. I don't receive spam anymore and don't block people because of their ISP: http://www.paganini.net/ask/ Regards. Fernando.
Tom & Fernando, Yea, adding back in the blackhole subscription is next on my list- after I add authentication to sendmail (I was interrupted by CERT CA-2003-12 when I was about to work on that). Quoting Fernando Schapachnik <fernando@mecon.gov.ar>: > En un mensaje anterior, Tom Lane escribió: > > Network Administrator <netadmin@vcsn.com> writes: > > > Trust me if I could block AOL, MSN, Yahoo and have of the asian IP block > I > > > would. > > > > If you can use a DNS-style blacklist, see > > http://www.five-ten-sg.com/blackhole.php --- they do block large chunks > > of the far east, which is why I use 'em ;-) > > I've been using ASK for a while. I don't receive spam anymore and don't > block > people because of their ISP: http://www.paganini.net/ask/ > > Regards. > > Fernando. > -- Keith C. Perry Director of Networks & Applications VCSN, Inc. http://vcsn.com ____________________________________ This email account is being host by: VCSN, Inc : http://vcsn.com
Tom Lane wrote:
> Tony Grant <tony@tgds.net> writes:
> > I just changed to 9telecom with the same result as Wanadoo when I mailed
> > Bruce.
> > Please tell me where I can find an ISP that has aDSL at under 30 EURO /
> > month and who isn't blocked by your spam filters.
>
> I can't speak for what Bruce is filtering, but judging from this message
> to the list, your European address is irrelevant. The mail is actually
> getting delivered from apps.tgds.net [212.100.226.141]. The blacklist
> I use blocks that address because it belongs to rackspace.
All my spam blocking is documented at:
http://candle.pha.pa.us/main/writings/spam/
You can even see my sendmail rules and script for maintaining my
blocking list at the bottom of the page.
Any network that sends more than 3 spams from different machines I
assume is just a spamhouse, or a poorly administered ISP, and that's how
wanadoo.fr got on my list. (I have since changed the block to
abo.wanadoo.fr). I don't see many other ways to handle this unless I
want to spend more time deleting spam or researching ISP's.
I recently was having some spam get around my blocks by using my
secondary MX. Yesterday I got some sendmail rules to fix that problem.
--
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
pgman wrote: > Any network that sends more than 3 spams from different machines I > assume is just a spamhouse, or a poorly administered ISP, and that's how > wanadoo.fr got on my list. (I have since changed the block to > abo.wanadoo.fr). I don't see many other ways to handle this unless I > want to spend more time deleting spam or researching ISP's. > > I recently was having some spam get around my blocks by using my > secondary MX. Yesterday I got some sendmail rules to fix that problem. My MX test wasn't working earlier --- it is now, in case anyone grabbed that sendmail macro file. -- 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
Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote on Wed, 16 Apr 2003 10:48:22 -0400: > I can't speak for what Bruce is filtering, but judging from this message > to the list, your European address is irrelevant. The mail is actually > getting delivered from apps.tgds.net [212.100.226.141]. The blacklist > I use blocks that address because it belongs to rackspace. I have browsed this group for a while, and it seems to me that Tom's input is almost half of the total -- certainly more than half of the useful posts. No wonder he had no time to look up the registration of 'apps.tgds.net'; he has better things to do. It turns out that that address is not registered under any of the 'net' groups, (e.g. nsiregistry.net, networksolutions.com, internic.net, apnic.net, etc.). It still works, although it gave a different address (212.100.232.223) just now after a ping. People using such sites as e-mail address should be warned that part of their mail may not go through. Furthermore, to filter spam it is in my experience more successful by doing it locally, rather than rely on the filters from an ISP (which often block whole regions instead of individual sites). The best filter is 'spamassassin' and is easy to use, very easy if you know a bit about Perl. Disadvantage of local filtering is that the mail must have come through, and thus may be slow for POT (plain old telephone) modems. Keep up the good work on Postgres, which still lacks much good documentation, especially in the interfaces, e.g. Class::DBI and the like. A. van Roggen