Autor: Matthew Palmer Data: A: exim-users Assumpte: Re: [Exim] rbl server spews...
On Fri, 20 Jun 2003, Sean Witham wrote:
> >>hosting company, and they have black listed practically all our ips because
> >>of ONE client who hosted with us about 2-3 years ago and spammed. We caught
> >
> > And how long did the spam go on for before you shut them down? And removed
> > all trace of them from your systems? "Shortly" is such a relative term...
> > "Shortly" might be a week, but that's a hell of a lot of spam. And does
> > "receive" mean "read", or "delivered"? If you only read abuse@ once a week,
> > and then took a week to shut them down, that's two weeks worth of spam...
>
> Even so if the incident was 2-3 years ago and it was dealt with (even if
> it did take two weeks) it would be worth releasing them from the list by
> now. The Spews list will end up almost useless if 50% of it was for
> based on what happened to an address 3 years ago.
