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Anonymous call blocking is a WONDERFUL thing the call gets dropped at the switch and the phone never rings. It does not answer the legitimacy question but I figure if they do not wish to identify themselves I do not want to talk to them! J Bacher wrote: > On Sat, 8 Jul 2000, Greg A. Woods wrote: > > > In my humble opinion any admin who permits their mailer to receive any > > e-mail from a known open relay (even so-called legitimate e-mail, since > > It's either legitimate or it isn't. > > > there's absolutely no way to identify legitimacy at the protocol level) > > is an accessory to any theft-of-service attack perpetrated on the relay, > > and is furthermore "guilty" in part of allowing known spam to reach > > their end users (assuming of course that they are willing to do anything > > Next, you'll be asking telephone companies to be filtering phone > solicitors. How would you like that done, by NPA or NPA/NXX? > > The determination as to whether an ISP desires to exclude or include data > into the network should be based upon its business plan and customer > demands and not upon anyone's political agenda or name-calling.
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