[PLUG] mail system architecture help

mashanti at voaor.org mashanti at voaor.org
Thu Mar 28 20:08:48 UTC 2002


On Thu, 28 Mar 2002, Mike De La Mater wrote:

> This particular situation seems to be that my ISP was providing some sort of
> service to a paying user. The service wasn't hosting but it sounds like it
> was DNS or they registered the name, or maybe they were just using their
> mail server. Anyway the offending user started spamming (UCE) and because
> somebody thought the ISP could make them stop, they listed them to keep the
> spam of the net. A list is generated when people complain and send in
> full-header examples of spam. The listing works because sysadmins use these
> lists in their own mail servers to determine if the incoming mail is spam.
> SpamCop is such a program and it uses a list that has my ISP.

		Thanks for this explanation.
>
> I'm sure I've oversimplified and I've probably got some details wrong, but
> that's how it looks to me.


		It may seem like an oversimplification to some, but the
details help me to understand some of the terms and basic information that
some of the folks on this know very well.
		It is nice to feel comfortable enough to ask these
questions.

Malaika


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> > From: plug-admin at lists.pdxlinux.org
> > [mailto:plug-admin at lists.pdxlinux.org]On Behalf Of mashanti at voaor.org
> > Sent: Thursday, March 28, 2002 8:09 AM
> > To: plug at lists.pdxlinux.org
> > Subject: Re: [PLUG] mail system architecture help
> >
> >
> > Pardon my ignorance but why would an isp be blacklisted and by whom?
> >
> > Malaika
> >
> >
> > On Wed, 27 Mar 2002, Chuck Mize wrote:
> >
> > > > My ISP is/was blacklisted.
> > > >
> > > > I'm assuming that they're being truthful that the problem
> > was a bad
> > > > user, although I don't understand how such a drastic event could
> > > > happen without the ISP being given adequate notice.
> > > >
> > > > My question is this: If I put a mail server up for myself, will I
> > > > still have problems if my ISP gets blacklisted? I'm on
> > Verison DSL.
> > > >
> > >
> > > That depends on how your ISP is being blacklisted. Some of
> > the blacklists
> > > list all of your ISPs IP ranges while others only list the
> > ISPs mail servers.
> > > Do you know which blacklist your ISP is on?
> > >
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