In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, der Mouse write
s:
> >> Furthermore, you appear to think that all DNSBLs are reactive in
> >> nature.  This is not true; there are at least a few DNSBLs that
> >> proactively list "large indistinguishable pool" addresses.  In at
> >> least one case, the pools are submitted to them by the providers
> >> that run the pools.  Using such a list puts a substantial crimp in
> >> direct-to-MX spamming.
> > And the providers lie in those list.  [...port-25-block removal which
> > doesn't remove from the DNSL data...]
> 
> Time to switch providers, I'd say.  But in any case, that's the fault
> of the provider in question, not of the DNSBL, or of DNSBLs as a class.

        It a fault of *both*.  The DNSBL operator should be trying to
        get good data and when it knows the data is bad it should pull
        the data and/or request the the provider fix the data it is
        sending.  Both parties need to be accountable.

> The DNSBL is doing just what it told its users it would do - list
> blocks reported to them by providers - and your issue, as reasonable
> and serious as it is, is between the provider and you, or the provider
> and the DNSBL, depending on and who's made what claims to whom and
> which way you prefer to squint your mind.
> 
> Unless that _isn't_ what the DNSBL tells its users it will do....
> 
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