Re: increase in spam and what to do about it

Bill Gunshannon wrote:
There is a perfect way to get email back under control. Go back to the
old way it was done in the original USENET days (Yes, Email predates the
INTERNET). Setup mail maps again and have email exchanged only between
agreeing hosts. That would immediately eliminate the ability for infected
machines on the INTERNET to send email anywhere. It would eliminate the
need for RBL's as it would take explicit permission to inject email into
the system. People who don't want to play by the rules get shunned. Works
fine for the Amish!!

What I would like to do is have a DNS server that does an RBL check for
every host requesting an MX lookup. If it's on the RBL, return a
127.0.0.1 as the prefered MTA! Save me a lot of traffic.

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