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Re: Last Call: draft-irtf-asrg-dnsbl (DNS Blacklists and Whitelists)

Steve Linford <linford@spamhaus.org> Tue, 11 November 2008 14:55 UTC

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Subject: Re: Last Call: draft-irtf-asrg-dnsbl (DNS Blacklists and Whitelists)
To: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>
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On 11 Nov 2008, at 15:38, Theodore Tso wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 05:12:56PM +0000, Steve Linford wrote:
>> I certainly agree that there are hundreds of small DNSBLs run from  
>> kid's
>> bedrooms which list on incomprehensible wildly over-broad policies  
>> and
>> that such DNSBLs are both antagonistic and useless and as a result  
>> are
>> used by almost nobody - that's 'market force'. But to pretend that  
>> the
>> dozen major DNSBLs make listings based on "unauthenticated rumor" or
>> "because the IP did not have 'mail.' or 'mx.'" is just silly mud- 
>> slinging
>> itself based on equally "unauthenticated rumor" and is especially  
>> odd if
>> it's coming from within IETF itself.
>
> Let me get this straight.

Yes please...

> It's OK to block e-mail messages on the
> basis of unauthenticated rumors

No.

   Steve Linford
   The Spamhaus Project
   http://www.spamhaus.org


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