On 18 Oct 2006, at 15:56, W B Hacker wrote: > Stuart Gall wrote: > > *snip* > >> >> Yes I just discovered that .gr (and hence me and most of my >> clients :-)) is listed because it does not have a whois service. > > I would be more concerned that both sorbs and spamhaus list your > <domain>.<tld>, > as does our own LBL, based on a wave of spam that hit *us* > specifically.
MY Domains are not listed - You mean .otenet.gr they are a local ISP (the biggest I think) I have my DSL account with they get listed on and off on various lists. [EMAIL PROTECTED] is my spam bucket. The cool thing is that there are only say 8-10 main ISPs in Greece, and they dont whitelist each other so often the e-country gets cut in two. otenet dont even accept their own IPs if they are listed in some RBL!!!! I found recently. :-)) > >> Whois does not support unicode domain names is >> gr-hostmasters most compelling reason. > > That's a fiddle. There are solutions for that. > >> Also the RFC1032 does not state that the domain has to be registered >> in a whois db it just sais that sysadmins should check their details >> and one way they might do that is with whois. >> > > See .to, also blacklisted by the ignorant. Tonga's NIC shows if a > domain exists, > but you must send an e-mail if you want more specific details about > the holder. > > Said holder get the email, and may or may not choose to respond. > >> >> Greece has 11million people so .gr can expect to be booted around a >> bit, but germany is 80million ? - COOL >> > > Ah, but there is a cultural difference! > > Germans thrive on conflict and feel neglected if no one is at least > *trying* to > boot them around. I think here they just expect it > > Bill Hacker > > (....500+ years out of Dresden, Saxony, and counting...) > > -- > ## 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/ > -- ## 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/
