Re: @Home Blacklisted by ORBS on 9 of 10 New Email Servers

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From: Paul Newhouse
Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2000 18:23

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In article <009F5366.08826FEA@sendspamhere.org>,
	system@SendSpamHere.ORG (Brian Schenkenberger, VAXman-) writes:
> In article <3A4997AD.B58ACAD5@spamcop.net>, Mike Blackford <mblackford@spamcop.net> writes:
>>After about 6 months using a new centralized mail server configuration,
>>Excite@Home has been blacklisted by ORBS on 9 of the 10.  (Typical SN@FU,
>>IMHO.)
> 
> FWIW, There was a thread here about folks on @home receiving SPAM a short
> while back.  I don't know about on-the-inside but on-the-outside, I have
> had to add <*@*home.com> to the rejection filter of my anti-SPAM software.
> I was getting upwards of a dozen, sometimes more, SPAM coming in with the
> @home.com in the header as origin.  I checked out several @home servers
> and they all had SMTP relay holes which allowed them to be exploited by
> SPAMmers. 
> 
> I'm not a fan of ORBS; however, @home does need to address their vulner-
> abilities in their servers.

90% (maybe more) of the mail I get form the @home servers is spam.  
I rarely get any from my DSL connected ISP.

Paul
-- 
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arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!supernews.google.com!sn-xit-02!supernews.com!router1.news.adelphia.net!cyclone.news.idirect.com.MISMATCH!newsfeed.direct.ca!look.ca!newshub2.rdc1.sfba.home.com!news.home.com!news1.frmt1.sfba.home.com.POSTED!not-for-mail

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From: rockhead.com@bigbox.wan.vpn (Paul Newhouse)
Subject: Re: @Home Blacklisted by ORBS on 9 of 10 New Email Servers
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