News from PANUG - August 27, 2001
http://panug.org

HIGH SPEED - OPPORTUNITIES?
by Gregg Berkholtz - PANUG President

I'm pleased to announce that the server that PANUG uses for its
web pages and email will be running with 10 Mb/s Internet access
in the next few weeks. We'll redesign the web pages a bit now
that bandwidth limitations are gone.

This vastly improved access allows PANUG to provide services
to its members that were not practical before. While I have a
few ideas, I'd like to hear from you about what PANUG could do
to make your life/job easier.

EMAIL REDIRECTION, SPAM & RBLs
by Ed Sawicki

PANUG has offered its members a email redirection service for
about 6 years. Any paid-up member can take advantage of it.
See the PANUG web site for details. We've been doing spam
suppression for these accounts for the past 3 years. Spam
is suppressed using a combination of the MAPS RBL lists
and black lists I maintain.

The MAPS RBL lists are no longer free. PANUG will have to
license the lists if we wish to continue to use it. The license
includes a fixed fee, which PANUG may be willing to pay for -
subject to approval by the Board of Directors. But there is a
per user fee of $5 that needs to be passed on to those that
use email redirection. If we don't subscribe to the MAPS
lists, we'll just have the black list that I maintain to suppress
spam - more spam will get through.

If you're using email redirection:

1. do you consider spam suppression a valuable service?
1. are you willing to pay the $5 annual fee for spam suppression?

Please let us know by replying to this message.