Eathlink spamblocker

[Martin Hepworth]

David

I think there's been some traffic on this over on the nanog  email list
a couple of weeks ago.

Alot of people are starting to do this as 'solutions' against spammers.
Of course the hole is when you have so many people on the whitelist the
spam starts to get through again.

--
Martin Hepworth
Snr Systems Administrator
Solid State Logic
Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300


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> don't laugh too hard.
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