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Re: spam on old lists - was [89attendees] Fw: new important message

John Leslie <john@jlc.net> Fri, 15 April 2016 17:53 UTC

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From: John Leslie <john@jlc.net>
To: JORDI PALET MARTINEZ <jordi.palet@consulintel.es>
Subject: Re: spam on old lists - was [89attendees] Fw: new important message
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JORDI PALET MARTINEZ <jordi.palet@consulintel.es> wrote:
> 
> Again: I really think we must reject emails coming from DNS-BL
> black listed servers.

   In a word, No.

   I'm in a spamhaus blacklist right now (working on it!!!), and spamhaus
refuses to say why. These things happen!

   If we were seeing a higher volume of spam get through, I'd agree to
instituting a moderation-like process; but we're not, and I dislike
make-work for moderators.

   Perhaps somebody would like to work on a captca?

> Is up to each postmaster to make sure that the IP addresses of his/her
> servers are not listed in DNS-BL and his network free of malware that
> can create problems to others.

   Indeed, we try!

   But very few blacklist maintainers offer actually useful information
to help us do this.

   We _could_ in principle work up protocols to replace zero-maintenance
blacklists as "the solution" to spam. I tried, the last time the topic
was hot; but totally failed to get anything that wasn't trivial to bypass.

> May be some day, someone at the IAOC can take care of this ??? instead
> of ignoring our complains.

   How much are you contributing to the funding of that additional work?

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John Leslie <john@jlc.net>

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