Steve Searle wrote: > Around 05:26am on Saturday, November 04, 2006 (UK time), Ed Greshko scrawled: > >> If you were to do that as an administrator for a company or an ISP as a >> blanket policy it would be quite another matter. You'd be making decisions >> for other people based on your assumptions/observations/criteria. Some >> people may characterize that as a dictatorship. > > Some people might but they would not be correct. A systems admin > setting IT or network policies will probably be doing his job correctly, > and certainly is not a dictator. If his policies are wrong, and their > is not a route for this to be corrected then the company has a problem > with its management structure. Job openings are currently available in the ISP IT departments in the PRC, Iran, North Korea, Myanmar, as well as other exotic locations, and now apparently Australia. Should I ever relocate to Australia I know at least one ISP that I would avoid like the plague. FWIW, a high percentage of spam is propagated via compromised PC's on the net. These PC's don't have real MTA's and are used to simply push out the spam. If a given message is rejected, it is not retried. Thus, the simple addition of the smf-grey milter (http://smfs.sourceforge.net/smf-grey.html) will reduce spam entering the system by over 50%. In my case, I see a nearly 80% decrease in the number of messages passed to spamassassin. Also, FWIW, if a sys admin in a corporation follows the direction of company management to put in place restrictive policies that is management's choice/decision. The employee has the choice to either work there or not. However, make no mistake, what you can and cannot do are being dictated. Or, was I absent from work the day a vote was taken on "Who wants to get email from Taiwan?". For an ISP to take this position and dictates who can communicate with me is, in my book, appalling and not a legitimate ISP. Looking at http://www.spamhaus.org/statistics/spammers.lasso one can also deduce that the majority of spammers are of Russian or Ukrainian descent. Hummm...so probably time to start filtering based on people's names. Ooops, maybe that is racist. -- Hoping to goodness is not theologically sound. - Peanuts
