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Mike 'Fraz' White
www.smartowner.co.uk
> -----Original Message-----
> From: exim-users-admin@??? [mailto:exim-users-admin@exim.org] On
> Behalf Of Alan J. Flavell
> Sent: 18 May 2004 10:47
> To: Exim users list
> Subject: RE: [Exim] BACKUP smart host?
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> That's all well and good, from *their* point of view, but how are we
> (who have no contractual relationship with them, and know nothing
> about them beyond what we can discern in the DNS and in public RBLs)
> supposed to know that they belong to the select band of folks who are
> capable of running their own mailer? If they walk like a duck, and
> quack like a duck, I'm afraid on the balance of probabilities they
> shouldn't be surprised to be treated like one by their potential
> recipients.
>
Which takes us back full circle to my wishful thinking earlier in this
thread that it would be nice if the maintainers of the various RBLs
could also run a system whereby users such as myself could have
themselves tagged as 'responsible' mailservers.
I fully agree that something needs to be done about the volume of spam
and viruses out there ,all I'm asking is that not everyone is 'tarred
with the same brush' :-)