On Wed, 11 Mar 1998 david@??? wrote:
> Date: Wed, 11 Mar 1998 10:29:04 -0500 (EST)
> From: david@???
> To: John Henders <jhenders@???>
> Cc: Philip Hazel <ph10@???>, exim-users@???
> Subject: Re: [EXIM] Regular expressions for filtering.
>
> On Thu, 5 Mar 1998, John Henders wrote:
>
> >
> > On Thu, Mar 05/98, Philip Hazel <ph10@???> wrote:
> >
> > > Easy peasy:
> > >
> > > ^.*-ts-.*\.dialsprint\.net$
> > >
> > > Actually, if you know that -ts- will be much nearer the front than the
> > > end, then
> > >
> > > ^.*?-ts-.*\.dialsprint\.net$
> > >
> > > would probably be more efficient. (If you put these things in quotes,
> > > remember to double the \ characters.)
> >
> > Cool. Thanks. Time to start tracking down all the terminal server names
> > in spam and constructing matches for them.
>
> Are you comfortable throwing out the baby with the bathwater here?
>
> IE, in order to eliminate the possibility of spam from dialsprint.net
> you're going to ban all legitmate mail from legitimate dialsprint.net
> users.
Wrong.
Legitimate dialsprint.net users will be using their assigned
SMTP/outgoing mail relay, and will NOT be making SMTP connections
directly to mailservers for destination domains.
Only spammers will be making SMTP connections directly from dynamic
terminal server addresses.
> It would be one thing to do this if dialsprint.net was known to harbor and
> encourage spammers, quite another thing if their AUP forbids it and they
> are victims of the spammers just as the rest of us are.
>
>
> --- David
>
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