Re: [Semi-OT,important] ORBS globally blocks users of these lists

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Mon Jan 17 2000 - 09:12:58 EST


> - Joe L. Dialupkiddie [1] dials into his ISP. He is reported to the
> ORBS database by a "friend" from the IRC, his out-of-the-box Linux
> distribution contains an open sendmail which is run at startup (JLD
> does not even know what sendmail is nor does he ever uses it [2]. He
> uses Netscape for Mail). ORBS takes his (dynamically assigned) IP
> address into its database.

There are big databases of dialup address ranges from ISPs. ISPs share these
as they are one of the most useful anti spam weapons. Their 10,000 lines should
be going via their mailhub so they can say "this address range is dialup and
treat with care". Probably more people use the big lists of dialup ranges
for mailing list filters than use anything else

Alan

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