[Dshield] Need some help testing

[Abuse]

** Reply to message from jayjwa <jayjwa at atr2.ath.cx> on Thu, 5 Jul 2007
09:03:46 -0400

> I really don't mean to pick on the person and won't name a name because the 
> person is well-meaning, but it illustrates exactly what I mean: communication 
> via email being so heavily filtered, and people so terrified of receiving 
> something they didn't ask for, that real mail can't get through. We don't know 
> each other directly, but I'd bet alot of people mail others they never met in 
> real life or face to face. If we're going to connect all these computers 
> together across the world so people can communicate, then anything that makes 
> that impossible defeats the entire purpose to begin with.

Which is why, when I got my own domain name, I searched for a hosting company
that would allow me to opt out of all spam filtering.  I will sort the spam
email inside my email client.


> I glad you created a tool to fight spam, and happy it's for Linux too, but you 
> created something to help people block and snuff out me, and those like me 
> (however small numbers there may be): not because of I'm a spammer or who I 
> am, or what I'm sending or how much, but because of the technical way that I'm 
> connected to the rest of you, which incidentally is a limitation on the 
> resources I have at hand for the time being. That's what it will be used for, 
> regardless of if you designed it to enforce AUP or anything else.

I have a static IP but my ISP has stated that they are going to put it on a
dynamic block list sometime in the future unless I pay for a business service
instead of a personal service.  Whatever they do will not affect me because I
dislike pain so all email not sent through my hosting service is relayed
through my ISPs email server (been doing this for years).  That prevents any
blocking for dynamic IPs for my email and does not cost extra.