RBL filtering configuration

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From: Charlie M (CharlieM_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 03/10/05 

Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 07:35:02 -0800

Artical ID 823866 states:
"This functionality (Exceptions to the connection filter) permits you to
override the RBL settings. This is helpful when you want to permit a domain
that has just been removed from an RBL site to send e-mail to the local
domain.

To permit delivery based on the SMTP address, follow these steps: 1. In the
Message Delivery Properties dialog box, on the Connection Filtering tab,
click Exception, and then click Add.
2. Type an SMTP address, or use wildcard characters to permit all the users
who are in a specific domain to send e-mail to your organization. For
example, to accept all messages from contoso.com, type *@contoso.com."

But when you go to the Conection Filtering > Exceptions and click on 'Help"
it reads:

"Block List Service Configuration Settings
Use the Block List Service Configuration Settings dialog box to configure
exceptions to your connection filter rules. Specifically you can add an SMTP
address in your organization to which users can send messages, regardless of
whether those users' IP addresses appear on a block list. Exceptions apply to
all filter rules. This is useful if you want legitimate organizations to be
able to contact the postmaster account to communicate with your
administrators. For example, suppose a legitimate company has a server
inadvertently configured to allow open relaying; therefore, e-mail sent from
this company to any of your users would be blocked. If you add your
postmaster's SMTP address as an exception, then the company's administrator
can e-mail your postmaster account to inform you of the company's situation
or find out why they cannot send e-mail to your organization."

Am I missing something?

Thanks in advance.

Charlie

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