Re: Blacklist statistics

[rob@xxxxxxxxx]

There is an option to just log.

On the blacklisting function there is an option to paste, (which we use) a 
message that is variable driven.  It says 
"Your host %s was found in the DNS blacklist at %s.  Contact that web site 
to see why your host is blacklisted and what steps you can do to remove 
your site from the blacklist."
We've NEVER gotten a call from a disgruntled trading partner.  And, as 
you've seen from our statistics, roughly 50% of our mail was turning out 
to be spam.

We decided to just jump in and go for it, and haven't been sorry in the 
least.

We were temporarily blacklisted, and rightfully so.  Then we turned off 
the open relay that Domino leaves there as a default.  So I can see your 
concern.  If we had received the above message we could have dealt with it 
faster.  We would not have been upset.  We just had to find the open relay 
and deal with it.  If you're still blacklisted then you have some 
management issues that you need to deal with.  Like firing the morons 
generating spam.

Rob Berendt
-- 
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary 
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." 
Benjamin Franklin 




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Novice type of question -
      By using the Blacklisting functions, the logic is to bounce all 
those
'invalid' emails --- so it's not doing a quarrantine type of function to
possibly review those emails.

      What happens if the email was valid?

      I guess I'm worried about people getting blacklisted and having us
bounce things incorrectly (which I know has happened).

Dale Nieswiadomy

Livingston County Information & Technology Services
(585) 243-7191

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