At 10:40 PM -0700 6/14/00, Chuq Von Rospach wrote:
>above.net has (fairly recently, as far as I can tell),
Russ is right: it has been true for a long time.
As someone who now colocates at above.net, I was pretty surprised
when I heard about this recently, given that I've been at above.net
for nine months. The fact that they use the RBL isn't mentioned
anywhere in my colo contact, but it is mentioned in the text of one
of the URLs in the contract.
Having said that, I still don't know how I feel about it. On the one
hand, like Chuq, I wouldn't choose to use the RBL, and even briefly
considered leaving above.net when I found out that it was being
forced on me. On the other hand, it hasn't caused us any noticeable
problems that I know of. Unlike most companies on the web, we list
our telephone number and postal address on hour home page, so someone
who was aggrieved by us blocking them would be able to let us know
fairly easily. We moved from a non-RBL colo site to above.net about
nine months ago, so anyone who had been able to get to use before but
couldn't now would have had plenty of time to tell us. So far,
nothing. The only way I found out about it was hearing the MAPS folk
talk about above.net.
I also note that, being at above.net hasn't caused that much less
spam from getting to IMC mailing lists. When we added DULS checking
to our sendmail setup, the spam dropped noticeably, but we still get
enough on some mailing lists to elicit complaints.
--Paul Hoffman, Director
--Internet Mail Consortium
