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

["Doug Ewell" <[e-mail]>]

Keith Moore <moore at network dash heretics dot com> wrote:

> Today, getting a message reliably delivered is once again a black art.
> But today, it's not for lack of standards or network connectivity.
> It's because so many messages are filtered for dubious reasons, or on
> the basis of what are essentially unsubstantiated rumors, or because
> of over-reliance on IP source addresses as identifiers.

Several years ago, my employer's e-mail spam filter blocked the Unicode 
mailing list as a "suspect site."  Earlier this year, GoDaddy (registrar 
of my domain name) did the same, and it took months to figure out what 
was going on.  It's conceivable that someone might have used this 
high-profile mailing list as part of a spam, at some point, but to block 
the entire domain is complete overkill.  I'm no expert on e-mail 
security, and I detest spam, but there is such a thing as a cure that is 
worse than the disease.

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Doug Ewell  *  Thornton, Colorado, USA  *  RFC 4645  *  UTN #14
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