I've found blacklists to be quite effective at reducing spam. Not eliminate it by any stretch of the imagination, but I'm seeing about 40-50 spam to my address a day caught by a blacklist.

As for no-response, you're right, it's not ideal when a human gets blocked. However, usually a blacklist is that way because it is an open door for spammers and the mail admistrator has been contacted. It seems like there's a flaw with how S P E W S listed you if postmaster@<yourbox> did not get a notice that it was listed.

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Robert Koberg wrote:
Just tried to send an email to a consultant I want to hire who frequents
this list. It is being blocked because I am on a subnet at rackspace that
has some spammers. I do not spam (unless you consider my posts to be that :)

Rackspace changed my IP to one that was not listed by S P E W S. However, I
guess the change has not propogated

Been reading up on S P E W S...

Is using blocklists a good thing???

I wonder if it is a good idea to have james just eat the spam mails and not
send a response back to the sender. When I originally received no reply, I
thought the consultant was simply ignoring me (we did finally make contact).
It might cause more harm than good for the users of james given that more
and more people are going to get listed on S P E W S.




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