At 4:45 AM -0600 2/9/02, Michael imposed structure on a stream of electrons, yielding: >Anyone want to start one or two RBL's? If we distribute the DNS servers so >each person has a local it should work well.
You don't want to do that. It will eat up your life and your mind. The world really does have enough blacklists. >I have one that I would be happy to share with folks (zone transfer). It is >just IP's that have spammed me. That sounds like a really good standard until you have a case like the one Chris described. The blacklist that blocked the mailing list only was adding an IP address that had been the source of spam. The operation of a blacklist with non-objective standards is a complicated business. To stop a significant amount of spam you will be listing machines that send a noticeable amount of mail that people really want. My favorite example is the entity originally known as MediaSynergy, later renamed Flonetwork to escape their spamming reputation and since borged by the DoubleClick privacy-invasion collective. They send mail for some legitimate companies, but a lot of that is done with no pretense of address confirmation. They send a fair amount of that mail with opt-out links pointing to a machine whose name has apparently never been in DNS. In looking at 4 years of archives, I see that about 70% of what has arrived from them aimed at addresses of mine is unequivocally spam, but the remaining 30% is mail which I have specifically requested. If I were to run a blacklist of places which have spammed me repeatedly and unrepentingly they'd be on it, but many people using that list would see legitimate requested e-mail rejected as a result. -- Bill Cole [EMAIL PROTECTED] ############################################################# This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To switch to the INDEX mode, E-mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Send administrative queries to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
