> If I went out and registered a domin, say blahblahblah.com 
> and put in my technical and admin contact info as 
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] and then sent spam from blahblahblah.com (who
would actually be 
> hosted by another isp, say mci) then why on earth would an sbl blacklist
yahoo.com?

There is an interesting injection attack on blacklists here, register a
bundle of domains each with its technical and admin contact info as a
different mail provider eg yahoo, hotmail, AOL, plus your (least) favourite
ISPs, and some big corporations, maybe some mailing lists, etc etc. Then
send spam from each domain you registered (doesn't even need to be a lot
just as long as you get noticed for it), sit back and watch while the
blacklists proceed to block all email from these domains and email admins
are forced to drop those lists because they are blocking so much legitimate
mail.

If a blacklist included ipswitch.com how long before everybody on this
mailing list stopped using it?

Complaining to ICANN might help with faked contact info, but use free
webmail and isp accounts that actually belong to you and you wouldn't even
be breaking any rules.


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