Man, they'll try anything to hack your system...

[Fred]

On Monday 30 January 2006 11:30, Ben Scott wrote:
> On 1/28/06, Python <python at venix.com> wrote:
...
>   Anyone here have figures on what percentages of their ham violates
> standards or best practices?  I don't, but based on anecdotal evidence
> from operators much larger then me, the answer is: "A lot."
>
>   The key is to distinguish spam from ham, not merely to assign
> characteristics to spam.
>
> > A good chunk of the remaining spam comes from roadrunner
> > addresses, presumably rooted zombies.
>
>   Blocking the mass-market consumer Internet feed ranges is reportedly
> a rather more effective spam/ham separator then looking for standards
> compliance.  The vast majority of mail from such ranges is, in fact,
> spam.  Of course, there are a few people running their own MX on such
> feeds which get rather annoyed by such actions, including people on
> this list.  Sadly, those are so few that they are often considered
> "justifiable collateral damage".

I've run into that problem in the past.  Forget emailing to anyone on AOL 
from your own "private" MX.

-Fred