https://bz.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=7271
Bug ID: 7271
Summary: URIBL no longer compliant with BlackList inclusion
policy
Product: Spamassassin
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: NEW
Severity: minor
Priority: P2
Component: Plugins
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
After being blocked by URIBL, with circa 500 messages per day (according to
postfix' logs) checked by their service, I tried to check the actual
limitations on their website.
...The only sentence I found, that describes the limits, is, quoting :
"Our public mirror infastructure consists of donated hardware and bandwidth. If
you abuse it, we will block your IP, or your nameserver IP that is producing
the excessive queries."
(http://uribl.com/about.shtml <- under "Abuse").
Now, the Blacklist inclusion policy clearly states :
"Must have a usage policy including any limits or restrictions that is clearly
documented and publicly visible using well defined terms. Terms such as "heavy
load" are not acceptable."
(https://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/DnsBlocklistsInclusionPolicy)
I have sent an email to URIBL requesting those limits to be clearly visible on
their website, and I am awaiting for an answer.
But I think that if SpamAssassin sent the mail themselves, it would have a
bigger impact.
I also suggest SpamAssassin to remove the URIBL implementation, or at the very
least block it, until URIBL decides to comply with the policy again.
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