> There are always enough mail admins out there who are stupid or lazy > enough to use any given blacklist [...] if it's marketed well,
Doesn't have to be marketed well. I run a blacklist at $DAYJOB that's a composite of lots of different regional blacklists based on countries where we have no business contacts (basically Europe east of Germany, Asia, Africa and South America). I have never advertised it as suitable for anyone else's needs, 'cause it's not. However, in one post to a mailing list showing a report format I failed to obfuscate the name of the blacklist, and the report showed it blocked a lot of spam. Five years later it's still getting queries, and I still get emails from people asking me to unblock them so they can reach some entity I've never heard of before. I usually contact those postmasters and they have no idea what my listing criteria are or that there's any problem with their using a randomly selected balcklist they found somewhere on the Net.... -- Dave Pooser Cat-Herder-in-Chief, Pooserville.com "NOTHING says love like a monkey. It's a fuzzy screeching bundle of tenderness!" -- QueenOfWands.net -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://www.exim.org/eximwiki/
