Maawg and similar evolved more or less as a reaction to too less actual spam mitigation and far too much cowboy filtering
So in time the large players have all evolved best practices if only to keep the number of customer tickets down, while some of the j random neckbeard hosting their own mail types are still in the “block all of China” stage. So yes, large players will often play nice, and respond professionally to requests for remediating false positives. --srs ________________________________ From: mailop <[email protected]> on behalf of Taavi Eomäe via mailop <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, January 2, 2026 5:34:17 AM To: Marco Moock <[email protected]>; [email protected] <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [mailop] Notes from kernel.org admin about *Continuous degradation of SMTP* On 17.12.2025 22:35, Marco Moock via mailop wrote: > Hosting your own is a good thing against that. I've found that to be worse in the context of kernel.org. Kernel.org uses RBLs which contain larger IPv6 subnets than what are allocated to customers, making delivery to kernel.org tedious by-default. I'd say kernel.org is directly contributing to the degradation of SMTP. I won't be changing providers just for them and some RBL trying to dictate allocation like that is kinda silly in the first place. On the other hand that same server has had no problems delivering to Google or Yahoo. So the "big guys" are much nicer than kernel.org in my personal experience. YMMV. _______________________________________________ mailop mailing list [email protected] https://list.mailop.org/listinfo/mailop
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