[geeks] Re: [rescue] Thoughts on mailing list advertising?

[Charles Shannon Hendrix]

Wed, 13 Oct 2004 @ 07:38 +0100, Mike Meredith said:

> > I get few RBL hits because SA blocks most of my spam before the RBL
> > lists apply.  I should have mentioned rule order in my post too.
> 
> That *would* make the DNSBLs look kind of anaemic especially as SA uses
> quite a few itself.

The last time I set SA up, I didn't do anything involving RBLs.  I
didn't even realize that was an option.

> I work at a .ac.uk where there's some twitchyness at anything that
> smacks of censureship (SA is about content; DNSBLs are about sources).
> Mind you the 'academic freedom' thing is misunderstood ... it is
> supposed to mean that academics cannot be fired for holding views
> unpopular with senior management.

Ah.  I had a woman accuse me of censoring her email one time, because
she could no longer get any.

Pretty much all her friends outside of work had virus laden Windows
boxes, and so we were killing just about everything she got.

> > Ah, but not when your provider's machines are doing all the work... :)
> 
> I prefer doing my own providing ... I've been doing it longer than most
> ISPs, although admittedly our network service is provided by JANET who
> have been around since the 1970s.

I'd rather do my own, but I'm stuck on dialup for the forseeable future.


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