spam blacklists and lne CDR
Hi. The last couple days I've gotten a lot of mail bounces from cpunks subscribers who are blocking lne.com because it's on the osirusoft spam "blacklist". There is no way to get off this list; in fact the site appears to be down. Lne.com doesn't send spam; I don't know why we are on this list. My guess is that it's becase we're listed on a couple other "extreme" blacklists that blacklist entire networks that are owned by ISPs that the list operator does not like. If you or your ISP uses this blacklist, I have no choice but to drop you from the lne cdr lest my mailbox drown in reject messages. I have mixed feelings about blacklists-- I've had to implement one here so we didn't drown in spam and it seems to work reasonably well. But lists that 1) don't let you get off and 2) list sites to pressure them to change ISPs don't get much respect from me, and neither do the ISPs that blindly use them. Eric
Hit wrong button in Mutt so resending to whole list now Osirusoft blacklisted the world. They are shutting down and sent out a message to blacklist everyone. Slashdot Article: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/27/0214238&mode=thread&tid=111&tid=126 -- TheCrypto E-Mail: thecrypto@thecrypto.org || A quote should really go here. Website: http://www.thecrypto.org || However, I could not find one. IIP Nick: TheCrypto AIM: HackerDragon128 || So now you are quoteless...... Fingerprint: E82B 0D92 258B 32A6 87A6 5823 2A00 35CC 38F6 F19A KeyID: 38F6F19A
On Wednesday 27 August 2003 11:52, Eric Murray wrote:
Hi. The last couple days I've gotten a lot of mail bounces from cpunks subscribers who are blocking lne.com because it's on the osirusoft spam "blacklist". There is no way to get off this list; in fact the site appears to be down.
Down, indeed. In fact, it's gone. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/27/0214238&mode=nested&tid=111&tid=126 This caused me to have to polish my SpamAssassin rules a bit to remove the Osirusoft contribution to scoring. Gotta love email. Monday, I had to add an alternate port to my hosted mailserver to get around the new Fuse.net policy of blocking outbound port 25. I just hope they don't start blocking inbound 22. That would be bad.
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