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Re: FW: The worst abuse e-mail ever, sverige.net

  • From: Alexander Koch
  • Date: Wed Sep 22 10:57:24 2004 
On Wed, 22 September 2004 10:40:30 -0400, Robert E.Seastrom wrote:
[..]
> Buy an appropriate connectivity product for your home connectivity and
> the problems go away.  Put your servers in a colo (a la
> http://www.vix.com/personalcolo/ ) and the problems go away.  It costs
> more to maintain a zone file that is not created by a perl script (ie,
> your generic rDNS).  You can expect to pay for this.  Presumably as a
> Unix sysadmin with 15 years of experience, this is a cost you can
> afford/justify.

What will that 1U server help me if I am sending stuff from
my Unix box at home via SMTP to it when my IP block is in
the various 'dialup' RBLs and ends up in the Received
headers, so every SA on the way happily scores it rather
high as these RBLs sum up. What would be gained than at the
end of it?

Alexander