Spamcop.net RBL blocking emails by mistake?

[John Rudd]

I can know:

a) that there's no traffic from our student network-ghetto right now,
b) that the student network-ghetto isn't allowed to relay through my MX 
servers,
c) exactly what traffic has passed through my MX servers.

Tell me again how I can't be 100% sure student infected hosts acting as 
spambots weren't the cause of my MX servers being blacklisted by 
spamcop?


On Sep 11, 2006, at 5:17 PM, Dennis Willson wrote:

> The only way to know for 100% that it couldn't be a student is if NO 
> traffic was allowed to the Internet... Otherwise you cannot know for 
> sure what they have done.
>
>
> On Tue, 12 Sep 2006 09:47:22 +1000 (EST)
>  Res <res at ausics.net> wrote:
>> On Sun, 10 Sep 2006, John Rudd wrote:
>>
>>>> so its completely absolutely impossible for a student to have an 
>>>> infected pc and do this you will state this on your life would you
>>>
>>> Students are our _least_ trusted class of user, and yes, we take 
>>> enough precautions against them that there is 0% chance that this 
>>> was caused by an infected student.
>>
>> There is no way you can guarantee this in this day and age, 
>> regardless of if you have 100 or 100K students, regardless of your 
>> setup, to think otherwise shows complete ignorance of modern day 
>> capabilities.
>>
>>
>> -- 
>> Cheers
>> Res
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