I concur. We were blackholed once buy one of these folks because some open relays were found in the arizona.edu domain, so huge swaths of the domain were blackholed.
Entirely unacceptable. Fortunately it was lifted within hours and most sites were accepting mail again within 24, but it was a huge disruption.
I guess "unacceptable" is relative. It depends on which side of the spam flood you reside.
If companies/ISPs/EDUs would properly police their own networks and eliminate the open relays and such in a timely fashion, there would be no need for the blacklists.
But since they can't be bothered, I say: go for it. Give 'em that single courtesy email then blacklist away! If it inconveniences a few of that company's customers, so be it! Maybe they'll rise up and burn the lazy admins at the stake.
TThe other problem with these Blackhole sites are that they are often as opaque and unaccountable as the spammers themselves. There have been many cases of ISP mistakenly blackholed, or remain blackholed after the open relay has been fixed.
No system is perfect. OTOH, Comcast swears that being on the orbs lists is a mistake. ROFLMAO
- Dan.
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