I would seriously look at who you are using for hosting. I have several domains and do not have a Spam problem on any of them. ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Albee" To: Sent: Sunday, March 17, 2002 5:01 PM Subject: RE: O/T SPAM Ever since setting up my new domain, www.aciaz.com (hosted elsewhere), I started getting spam almost instantly to common account names such as contact@ and contacts@. I have email accounts that go to my linux boxen at home, but I also have a windows machine that handles a good amount email and SPAM. From what I have seen, every SPAM with the exception of one was from the AP netblock. Is there a way that I can configure outlook to check the source IP and handle the message appropriatly? I know this would not be a problem to do on my linux boxen but a majority of my spam does hit my windows box first. John -----Original Message----- From: plug-discuss-admin@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us [mailto:plug-discuss-admin@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us]On Behalf Of Victor Odhner Sent: Sunday, March 17, 2002 2:13 PM To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us Subject: Re: O/T SPAM George Toft wrote: > ORBL and the like offer services that the > mail servers can interface to and block > anyone sending mail that is in that list. Yes, but again the problem is guilt by association. Suppose this: 1. Mark has an account on Earthlink. 2. Earthlink happens to have an open relay somewhere, or had it at some point. 3. My primary ISP subscribes to the blackhole list. OK, so Mark sent messages to me, and it HAPPENED to pass through the "tainted" node at Earthlink. My ISP blackholed it, and I never knew. I would get occasional complaints that senders' mail to me was bouncing, but generally I just never knew. So both parties are being denied a connection because of Earthlink's configuration error, combined with the draconian policy of my ISP. Even worse: 1. I have an account at aztec.asu.edu. It forwards all my messages to my primary address. 2. The ISP at my primary address was blackholing open relays. 3. I received some spam at my primary address and submitted it to a spam recycler (now defunct). 4. The relay node at aztec.asu.edu got blackholed because I asked it to relay my mail! So then I wasn't getting ANY of my forwarded mail. It would certainly be legitimate to blackhole an IP that originates spam. But if you don't write your quota of tickets against actual offenders, that doesn't justify closing the damn road. I want all my legitimate e-mail. I give out my address and expect that it will work. I'll winnow out the chaff myself, so please don't protect me. Vic ________________________________________________ See http://PLUG.phoenix.az.us/navigator-mail.shtml if your mail doesn't post to the list quickly and you use Netscape to write mail. PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss ________________________________________________ See http://PLUG.phoenix.az.us/navigator-mail.shtml if your mail doesn't post to the list quickly and you use Netscape to write mail. PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss