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iPermitMail Email Firewall



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On Sun, 21 Sep 2003 14:31:39 -0400 (EDT)
"Rich Braun" <richb at pioneer.ci.net> wrote:

> The ipermitmail offender is still on the BLU list.  Any BLU submitters
> who aren't yet on ipermitmail's whitelist are still getting those
> annoying challenge-response messages.
> 
> Other than blackholing ipermitmail's mx receivers from the BLU server,
> I don't have any ideas on how to stamp this problem out.  (Obviously
> whoever's using ipermitmail is not getting BLU postings anymore, so
> he/she remains oblivious to our complaints, or if they are aware, they
> have chosen not to discontinue using ipermitmail for the BLU
> subscription.)
> 
> Perhaps BLU should post a policy on the mailing-list page asking that
> new subscribers double-check their email address to make sure it does
> not have challenge-response spam checking software enabled.
> 
> I suppose another idea would be to write a script that extracts the
> domain portion of each of the current BLU subscribers and does a 'dig'
> for the MX records.  The output could then be grep'ed for
> ipermitmail.com or ilap.com to hopefully find the offending address.
If we can figure out who it is, 


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Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org>
Boston Linux and Unix user group
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