Re: Daniel Liston -- what's up?

SRE wrote:

> At 02:09 PM 9/26/2003, Daniel Liston wrote:
> 
>>I have both client.attbi.com and comcast.net set as reject
>>in my sendmail access file.  Sorry about the collateral
>>damage.  I will add you to the whitelist.  I am so fed up
>>with spam that I am taking quite draconian measures to
>>prevent it.
> 
> 
> So what you're saying is that the rest of us have to listen to
> requests that you respond (via an email list) because you are
> essentially blocking all people you haven't put in your whitelist?
> 
> That's Draconian, all right! Does it deal with forged return
> addresses and people who send from a domain other than the
> one where they receive? (rhetorical question)
> 
> A more reasonable way to manage whitelists is available:
>   http://smarden.org/qconfirm/
> 
> Steve

I am in the same boat now.  My provider just started blocking
outgoing port 25, so I have to send my outgoing mail through
their servers.  I am happy to whitelist almost any old
majordomo user. ;)

I did take a look at qconfirm. Unfortunately, I don't run
qmail.  I have trouble following the philosophy, as compared
to sendmail.  Old dogs and new tricks...

Dan Liston