>> Small pedantic point: DNSBLs, not RBLs. > > As an erstwhile MAPS employee, the persistence of this pedantry warms my > heart...
<aol> me too (on both counts) </aol> > Also, to author[-1], I think it is a bit of a misimpression that DNSBL > operators share data. In some cases they may have overlapping sources, and > obviously they can query each others' lists, but there's legal peril in DNSBL > operators working together and using each others' non-public data. You can be > fairly sure that if Spamhaus and SORBS (Proofpoint) and Barracuda are all > listing an IP, they each have their own trustworthy data to back it up. And this is really why I responded - because yes, so much this about the legal peril. >> Graeme (wearing massive floppy felt pedant hat with huge gold tassels >> attached to make the point) :) Hang on, let me don my professorial mortarboard and hood (and just *why* is it called a hood, anyways?) Anne --- Anne P. Mitchell, Esq. Email Law & Policy Attorney CEO Institute for Social Internet Public Policy (ISIPP) Author: Section 6 of the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 (the Federal email marketing law) Creator of the term 'deliverability' and founder of the deliverability industry Author: The Email Deliverability Handbook Board of Directors, Denver Internet Exchange Dean Emeritus, Cyberlaw & Cybersecurity, Lincoln Law School Prof. Emeritus, Lincoln Law School Chair Emeritus, Asilomar Microcomputer Workshop Counsel Emeritus, eMail Abuse Prevention System (MAPS) _______________________________________________ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://list.mailop.org/listinfo/mailop
