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["Shea Tisdale" <shea AT sheatisdale.com>]

Chuck most certainly does manage the server for this account and he does a
great job.  But he doesn't manage my 4 other accounts, nor my work account
on my laptop.  So he only gets partial credit.  ;-)


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steven Champeon" <schampeo AT hesketh.com>
To: "Internetworkers: http://www.ibiblio.org/internetworkers/";
<internetworkers AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Saturday, August 23, 2003 6:00 PM
Subject: Re: [internetworkers] sobig, yet soannoying


> on Sat, Aug 23, 2003 at 01:00:48PM -0400, Shea Tisdale wrote:
> > [attribution corrected] Steven Champeon wrote:
> > > on Fri, Aug 22, 2003 at 06:17:24PM -0400, Shea Tisdale wrote:
> > > > I got more messages from Internetworkers about Sobig than anything
else.
> > As
> > > > a matter of fact, I didn't get a single sobig email at all.  Perhaps
you
> > > > should stop letting your email software sleep around so much. :-)
> > >
> > > Perhaps you have a responsible systems administrator. Nobody on our
> > > systems got infected, either, because we block that crud. It doesn't
> > > mean that your server didn't have to block thousands of delivery
attempts.
> >
> > Yes, I do have a very responsible system/network admin.  Me.  :-)
>
> Oh, I'm sorry - I assumed that because you were using crews.com as an
> outbound mail server that Chuck might have had something to do with it. ;)
>
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> FWIW, you might want your mail server to have proper rDNS. We generally
> don't accept mail from "anonymous" IPs like yours, whose forward and
> reverse DNS don't match the HELO, as they are the source of all of our
> spam. And with crud like SoBig.F on the rise, we're going to be blocking
> more and more strictly.
>
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