Lazlo Nibble wrote:
>
> On Tue, Jan 26, 1999 at 10:18:17AM +0100, Ivan Pope wrote:
>
> > >If you have some evidence to support your claim that sysadmins refuse mail
> > >from people for no reason, please present it.
> >
> > We were put on the Paul Vixie black list system and had all traffic from
> > our mailservers blocked into the US by a US ISP that used the list as a
> > reference. This had a major effect on our service, as the ISP was the
> > supplier into the US for our ISP.
> > What was our crime? Someone used one of our client addresses as a _return_
> > address on a piece of spam.
>
> I hardly think that providing a safe home for spammers to collect responses to
> their spam is "no reason" for refusing to connect to your system. By offering
> a drop box, your site was actively assisting these lowlifes in their abuse of
> the network. Why should people feel obligated to help you help the spammers
> by connecting to you?
also, it should be pointed out that paul vixie does not 'lightly' add folks
to the blacklist. only after the sysadmins of the questionable site/isp give
clear indication they are braindead or dont give a damn.
the blacklist helps them give a damn.
-ken
who uses vixie's list
