Re: [mailop] List of unused, big email-domains?

2019-01-10 Thread Laura Atkins
> On 10 Jan 2019, at 16:42, Chris Boyd wrote: > > > >> On Jan 10, 2019, at 3:53 AM, Stefano Bagnara wrote: >> >> mcimail.com (30 Jun 2003 ) > > I used to have an mcimail.com address, and an @internetmci.com address. > > Anyone know if that’s still in use? mcimail.com was turned into

Re: [mailop] List of unused, big email-domains?

2019-01-10 Thread Chris Boyd
> On Jan 10, 2019, at 3:53 AM, Stefano Bagnara wrote: > > mcimail.com (30 Jun 2003 ) I used to have an mcimail.com address, and an @internetmci.com address. Anyone know if that’s still in use? —Chris ___ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org

Re: [mailop] List of unused, big email-domains?

2019-01-10 Thread Benjamin BILLON
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:List_of_major_email_domains_no_longer_in_service -- Benjamin -Original Message- From: mailop On Behalf Of Benjamin BILLON Sent: mercredi 9 janvier 2019 18:15 To: mailop@mailop.org Subject: Re: [mailop] List of unused, big email-domains? I didn't

Re: [mailop] List of unused, big email-domains?

2019-01-09 Thread Benjamin BILLON
2019 20:19 To: mailop@mailop.org Subject: Re: [mailop] List of unused, big email-domains? RBL would be useful but I can start a list of defunct domains based on my experience, my email history and a few logs. I can't publish a RBL in a blink. Also in my case, I wouldn't need a MTA to consume t

Re: [mailop] List of unused, big email-domains?

2019-01-09 Thread Grant Taylor via mailop
On 01/09/2019 09:45 AM, John Levine wrote: Sounds like it'd be more productive to fix the code in the MTA rather than to invent a band-aid and then try to make the MTA use the band-aid. Rejecting mail for authoritative NXDOMAIN failure is pretty basic. I think most of the MTAs (that I've

Re: [mailop] List of unused, big email-domains?

2019-01-09 Thread John Levine
In article you write: >On 01/09/2019 07:58 AM, John Levine wrote: >> Sounds like it'd be more useful to persuade those domains to publish a >> null MX. Then everyone's mail to them will fail automagically. > >Agreed. > >However that requires that the domains still be registered and having

Re: [mailop] List of unused, big email-domains?

2019-01-09 Thread Grant Taylor via mailop
On 01/09/2019 07:58 AM, John Levine wrote: Sounds like it'd be more useful to persuade those domains to publish a null MX. Then everyone's mail to them will fail automagically. Agreed. However that requires that the domains still be registered and having DNS service. Granted, MTAs should

Re: [mailop] List of unused, big email-domains?

2019-01-09 Thread Patrick Ben Koetter
* John Levine : > In article <0eb10a39-fe76-e064-ae17-dc1484260...@stefan-neufeind.de> you > write: > >Part of my reason to start this mail-thread was that for some domains > >which get mistypes from time to time (like gmail.de instead of > >gmail.com) it would maybe nice to reject that email

Re: [mailop] List of unused, big email-domains?

2019-01-09 Thread John Levine
In article <0eb10a39-fe76-e064-ae17-dc1484260...@stefan-neufeind.de> you write: >Part of my reason to start this mail-thread was that for some domains >which get mistypes from time to time (like gmail.de instead of >gmail.com) it would maybe nice to reject that email right away ... Sounds like

Re: [mailop] List of unused, big email-domains?

2019-01-09 Thread Stefan Neufeind
On 1/8/19 9:20 PM, John Levine wrote: > In article > you write: >> -=-=-=-=-=- >> -=-=-=-=-=- >> >> On 01/08/2019 12:46 PM, John Levine wrote: >>> Why would spam trap domains want to say anything? >> >> So that their domain(s) would be ineligible to be listed. > > You're still making the key

Re: [mailop] List of unused, big email-domains?

2019-01-08 Thread Michelle Sullivan
From: http://www.sorbs.net/general/using.shtml Under 'Zones Available': nomail.rhsbl.sorbs.net - List of domain names where the owners have indicated no email should ever originate from these domains. .. Its pretty much

Re: [mailop] List of unused, big email-domains?

2019-01-08 Thread Michael Peddemors
Ah yes.. have to have the ACL's in place to send empty replies ;) With our company having run RBL's for well over 10 years, (like many others on this list) we have seen it all, spammers checking for clean IP space, employees at competitors, the 'startups' wanting to seed their data sets

Re: [mailop] List of unused, big email-domains?

2019-01-08 Thread Bill Cole
On 8 Jan 2019, at 15:58, Grant Taylor via mailop wrote: On 01/08/2019 01:49 PM, John R Levine wrote: (I) don't see it as very useful. Fair. I'm of the opinion that an RBL is not difficult to set up. To me the difficult thing is sourcing data to put in it. No, the difficult part of

Re: [mailop] List of unused, big email-domains?

2019-01-08 Thread Benjamin BILLON
It's just another tool in our toolbox. -- Benjamin -Original Message- From: mailop On Behalf Of John R Levine Sent: mardi 8 janvier 2019 21:49 To: Brandon Long Cc: mailop ; Grant Taylor Subject: Re: [mailop] List of unused, big email-domains? > Tools can be used for good and

Re: [mailop] List of unused, big email-domains?

2019-01-08 Thread Grant Taylor via mailop
On 01/08/2019 01:49 PM, John R Levine wrote: (I) don't see it as very useful. Fair. I'm of the opinion that an RBL is not difficult to set up. To me the difficult thing is sourcing data to put in it. I do also want to be sure that if such is done, there is some sanity around it. Can I

Re: [mailop] List of unused, big email-domains?

2019-01-08 Thread John R Levine
Tools can be used for good and bad purposes. At some level, an ESP is trusting mailing lists from their customers, and knows that some of those lists are bad, even if the customer claims the lists are on the up and up. Any "white hat" ESP is going to have various systems in place to try and

Re: [mailop] List of unused, big email-domains?

2019-01-08 Thread Brandon Long via mailop
On Tue, Jan 8, 2019 at 11:53 AM John Levine wrote: > In article < > 939a57ce-4fcc-bd72-b2a4-632fe...@spamtrap.tnetconsulting.net> you > write: > >Also, it would be trivial for spam trap operators to disqualify their > >domains by stating that they do send email from said domains. > > Why

Re: [mailop] List of unused, big email-domains?

2019-01-08 Thread John Levine
In article you write: >-=-=-=-=-=- >-=-=-=-=-=- > >On 01/08/2019 12:46 PM, John Levine wrote: >> Why would spam trap domains want to say anything? > >So that their domain(s) would be ineligible to be listed. You're still making the key assumption that they would care. >Receivers could use it

Re: [mailop] List of unused, big email-domains?

2019-01-08 Thread Grant Taylor via mailop
On 01/08/2019 12:46 PM, John Levine wrote: Why would spam trap domains want to say anything? So that their domain(s) would be ineligible to be listed. Something as simple as the following would render a sending domain ineligible. From: postmaster@domain.eample Subject: I send email.

Re: [mailop] List of unused, big email-domains?

2019-01-08 Thread John Levine
In article <939a57ce-4fcc-bd72-b2a4-632fe...@spamtrap.tnetconsulting.net> you write: >Also, it would be trivial for spam trap operators to disqualify their >domains by stating that they do send email from said domains. Why would spam trap domains want to say anything? What would tbe point

Re: [mailop] List of unused, big email-domains?

2019-01-08 Thread Benjamin BILLON
on Wikipedia tomorrow, if nobody does it first =) -- Benjamin -Original Message- From: mailop On Behalf Of Grant Taylor via mailop Sent: mardi 8 janvier 2019 19:58 To: mailop@mailop.org Subject: Re: [mailop] List of unused, big email-domains? On 01/08/2019 10:32 AM, John Levine wrote

Re: [mailop] List of unused, big email-domains?

2019-01-08 Thread Grant Taylor via mailop
On 01/08/2019 10:32 AM, John Levine wrote: A lot of them have been turned into spamtraps after rejecting mail for a year or so. For obvious reasons, the people using them will not tell you what they are. I think there is a significant difference in a list of defunct sending domains and a

Re: [mailop] List of unused, big email-domains?

2019-01-08 Thread Grant Taylor via mailop
On 01/08/2019 09:55 AM, Benjamin BILLON wrote: I'd be interested in that too. As would I. As I'm not aware of such list, what about just starting it from scratch? We could put it on Wikipedia or anywhere else where it makes sense, and where we would have history and versioning. I'm not

Re: [mailop] List of unused, big email-domains?

2019-01-08 Thread John Levine
In article <570336ea-8179-23c2-6a8c-1fa95380e...@stefan-neufeind.de> you write: >Does somebody know of a list of domains that are known to not run >email-services anymore these days? A lot of them have been turned into spamtraps after rejecting mail for a year or so. For obvious reasons, the

Re: [mailop] List of unused, big email-domains?

2019-01-08 Thread Stefan Neufeind
De : mailop De la part de Benjamin BILLON > Envoyé : mardi 8 janvier 2019 17:56 > À : Stefan Neufeind ; mailop@mailop.org > Objet : Re: [mailop] List of unused, big email-domains? > > I'd be interested in that too. > As I'm not aware of such list, what about just starting it from

Re: [mailop] List of unused, big email-domains?

2019-01-08 Thread Mathieu Bourdin
t of addresses found in lists? Mathieu Bourdin. -Message d'origine- De : mailop De la part de Benjamin BILLON Envoyé : mardi 8 janvier 2019 17:56 À : Stefan Neufeind ; mailop@mailop.org Objet : Re: [mailop] List of unused, big email-domains? I'd be interested in that too. As I'm not awar

Re: [mailop] List of unused, big email-domains?

2019-01-08 Thread David Landers via mailop
+1 in being interested in that documentation. I have a relatively small list based on shutdown announcements from industry blog posts, e.g. what Al Iverson has compiled here: https://www.spamresource.com/search/label/dead%20domains On Tue, Jan 8, 2019 at 12:01 PM Benjamin BILLON wrote: > I'd

Re: [mailop] List of unused, big email-domains?

2019-01-08 Thread Benjamin BILLON
I'd be interested in that too. As I'm not aware of such list, what about just starting it from scratch? We could put it on Wikipedia or anywhere else where it makes sense, and where we would have history and versioning. I recently saw a few domains decommissioned for years, and they still have