>That is one kewl disgruntled-employee playground they've got there.
>I'm telling everyone I know. :)))
It does seem that way, but the only abuse that would work is if the
disgruntled-employee still has access to send mail through the
mailserver. He can't do it if he gets fired and no longer has access to
send mail, since the only servers that will get listed in DSBL are those
that connect directly to the DSBL server (and send a specially formatted
message).
So if the disgruntled employee does this, the company can check their logs
to see who it was that sent it. They can then become a disgruntled company
and take the disgruntled employee to court to make him (or her) even more
disgruntled. If the company can't figure out who it was from their logs,
they deserve to be in DSBL (since they are giving access to people they
can't identify).
The main flaw seems to be that anyone can create a Hotmail account and send
one of these E-mails to DSBL, and get the Hotmail servers listed. So DSBL
may need to test servers that connect to it in order to have a
very-close-to-foolproof system.
-Scott
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