It appears (from email recently sent to the admins of a few small mailservers I help admin) that the people in charge of uribl.com have decided to set a pretty low threshold for blacklisting DNS servers from querying, demanding that people who hit that threshold pay them a rather exorbitant rate for a data feed.
I have judged this threshold to be low based on the size of some of the mail/dns servers whose admins have gotten this email, along with the fact that this is the only blacklist to have taken this obnoxious stance. I have no problem disabling their tests in my local.cf. I'm wondering if it's time to recognize that they are very similar to MAPS and to treat them similarly, because right now the default inclusion of tests against multi.surbl.com is in reality just a "trial service" and an opportunity for this for-profit organization to create revenue streams. I really don't care much either way, for me it's a done deal, I'm disabling the tests on my mail servers and advising others to do the same. I'm just wondering if the community at large is aware of this and has an opinion. Andy --- Andy Dills Xecunet, Inc. www.xecu.net 301-682-9972 ---
