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From: David Newall <davidn@davidnewall.com>
To: jmerkey@wolfmountaingroup.com
Cc: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Kernel Blocking Firewall
Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2009 21:26:53 +1030	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <49672D75.4060201@davidnewall.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <55312.166.70.238.44.1231490626.squirrel@webmail.wolfmountaingroup.com>

jmerkey@wolfmountaingroup.com wrote:
> Allowing a server on a dynamic IP range to act as a mail server is what is
> stupid.

Sorry to be argue semantics, but I think it's SMTP clients that are the
major cause of spam.  Many, probably most, ISPs provide an SMTP relay
for their subscribers, and blocking these dynamic addresses doesn't
present a hard impediment for delivery of their mail to you.  None the
less, to say that people on a dynamic IP address should be *obliged* to
go through a relay is offensive.  (Not that you did say that, but I
think it's what you had in mind.)

  reply	other threads:[~2009-01-09 10:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-01-09  2:23 [ANNOUNCE] Kernel Blocking Firewall jmerkey
2009-01-09  6:46 ` Willy Tarreau
2009-01-09  7:36   ` jmerkey
2009-01-09  8:45     ` Willy Tarreau
2009-01-09  8:15       ` jmerkey
2009-01-09  9:09         ` Willy Tarreau
2009-01-09  8:43           ` jmerkey
2009-01-09 10:56             ` David Newall [this message]
2009-01-09 18:14               ` jmerkey
2009-01-10  0:40   ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2009-01-10  6:11     ` Willy Tarreau

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