On 97/12/20 at 14:49 PM +0000, Alistair Young wrote:
>
> On Sat, 20 Dec 1997 12:26:37 +0000, in message <E0xjNzK-0008Av-00@???>,
> Piete Brooks <Piete.Brooks@???> (== Piete.Brooks)
> praised Shub-Internet thus:
>
> >> Can RBL be used with a standalone workstation connected to an ISP via PPP?
> > I can't see how
> > 1) standalone
> > 2) workstation
> > 3) ISP
> > 4) PPP
> > effect it ...
>
> I've tried it, and unfortunately, there may be *one* thing. As I am
> only intermittently connected to the Internet, my incoming e-mail is
> queued up for me on the ISP's mail hub (MX records for
> arkane.demon.co.uk point to this, obviously, rather than my machine),
> and delivered to me via SMTP when it detects that I've logged on.
>
> The problem with that, you see, is that all incoming mail connections
> to my machine originate with that mail hub, not from the network of
> the original sender, so using RBL on my machine is largely useless -
> the only addresses it'll ever check are those of my ISP's mail hub
> machines.
>
> (Perhaps an option to lookup the addresses of the originating host and
> see if they're in the RBL might be a nice thing for a future version?)
>
> Alistair
>
This is quite good information to have since I am also connected intermittantly
to my ISP. It appears that RBL is not too useful under these conditions.
Is there some other mechanism one can use to deal with spam under these
circumstances?
Thanks for your kind response.
Regards,
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Victor Torrico
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