Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm
List-Subscribe: <mailto:cygwin-subscribe AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Archive: <http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/>
List-Post: <mailto:cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Help: <mailto:cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com>, <http://sources.redhat.com/ml/#faqs>
Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com
Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2002 23:54:53 -0500
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: SPEWS blocked me
Message-ID: <20021119045453.GB28126@redhat.com>
Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
References: <3DD9AD23 DOT 70705 AT netstd DOT com>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Disposition: inline
In-Reply-To: <3DD9AD23.70705@netstd.com>
User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i

On Tue, Nov 19, 2002 at 11:16:51AM +0800, Wu Yongwei wrote:
>Is SPEWS necessary? I see that the whole DSL IP range of our company's 
>ISP is blocked. Terrible that each user needs to beg the mercy of SPEWS 
>or individually send request to register their e-mail addresses safely 
>to use in Cygwin.

Yeah.  It's really really terrible isn't it?  The horror of having to
take an extra five minutes to register yourself.  The mind numbing
searing pain is almost inconceivable.

>No intention to insult. Just feel there may be alternate ways to do 
>that. Once our mail server is blocked by a open relay list, but it is 
>easier to remedy and I feel good that a security hole in our mail server 
>is eliminated.

Given that a marjority of the spam that makes it by all of the other
filters is blocked by OsiruSoft, I don't think I'm going to be
eliminating it anytime soon, especially when you can trivially bypass
the block.

cgf

--
Unsubscribe info:      http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Bug reporting:         http://cygwin.com/bugs.html
Documentation:         http://cygwin.com/docs.html
FAQ:                   http://cygwin.com/faq/