Re: What the Hell? Fw: Mail delivery failed: returning message to sender

[Wess Bechard <sp...@eliquid.com>]

To be fair to the blacklisters,

There are many ways to authenticate smtp before allowing remote
senders.  Perhaps Earthlink does use its own method, but maybe it is
just not doing enough.

On Tue, 2004-09-21 at 15:06, jdow wrote:

> From: "Bob Apthorpe" <ap...@cynistar.net>
> 
> 
> > A quick check of http://dsbl.org/listing?ip=207.217.120.116 shows
> > earthlink's server being listed for being a single-hop open relays and
> > insecure formmail scripts. Looks like earthlink relays for o1.com users;
> > you may want to ask DSBL how trusted their reporter 'salsbury' is.
> 
> My understanding is that Earthlink servers are "open" so that people
> who are mobile can still send mail through their Earthlink accounts.
> The way they handle the spam issue is a tarpit operation. The more
> mails you send in a given interval the slower the mail processes. So
> Earthlink mailers can be used for spam - in very small quantities.
> 
> This is the basic reason I believe black lists are the spawn of the
> devil himself. They seldom take into account the technology used at
> the so called open relays.
> 
> And it still seems like its automated operation could be spoofed into
> blacklisting the entirety of the Earthlink servers. (I'm lucky I could
> switch to another one. They have "quite a few".)
> 
> It's rather frustrating and my urge is to find a way to deal with the
> twits at dsbl.org rather than Earthlink.
> 
> {^_^}