On Mon, 22 Mar 2004, Chris Thielen wrote: > > > Infinite-Monkeys has been dead for some 6 months, and is now flagging > > ALL checked messages as spam in an effort to get sysadmins to finally > > update their rules. It seems to be working. > > It seems that there is a fundamental problem with DNSBLs gracefully > exiting the scene. It's really too bad that those people who (for > whatever reason) can't maintain a DNSBL anymore seem to end up with a DDOS > on their hands and feel they have to resort to "everything is blacklisted" > to get any notice from mail system administrators. I think we need method > for clients of DNSBLs to be notified that the BL is shut down/shutting > down.
I asked for a simple fix from a number of DNSBLs, a major one of which is now KIA. All I was asking for was a simple announcement mailing list so that the maintainers could let all responsible admins using their DNSBL know of problems, changes, or its demise. Many of them do this. Many don't. The response I almost always get from a DNSBL maintainer that doesn't have a mailing list is that they post news to NANAE and that I should monitor that. I don't have time to scour NANAE everyday for information that I might very well need immediately. Why so many of them don't provide this basic service I don't know. Justin
