[SpamCop-List] Re: IBM spamming?

[Steven Maesslein]

On Sun, 2 Oct 2005 13:21:14 +0200, Philip Homburg coughed into spamcop 
and left this in 
<9s7lpeorft3nabni9prsehgbj3 at inews_id.stereo.hq.phicoh.net>:

> In my experience there are. Even in China, there are people foolish enough to
> use my software :-) (or, at least, ask questions about it).

I feel sorry for you. I'm lucky enough to have no reason to accept mail 
from most of APNIC and all of LACNIC, so most of those areas are in the 
firewall, and what isn't in the firewall is in the DNSBL.

> What's the point rejecting e-mail just because of technicalities (dynamic,
> no reverse DNS, TTLs too short)?

Because a real mail server shouldn't have any of those characteristics. 
If a machine which does exhibit them is trying to send you mail, the 
chances are it's a zombified Windows machine trying to send you a virus 
or spam.

-- 
Steve

A group of cats is a "conceit". They'd like it to be called a "pride"
but that would fool nobody.
        -- Morely Dotes in NANAE, 2-FEB-2004