On Tue, 25 Mar 2008, John Rudd wrote:
Aaron Wolfe wrote:
On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 11:50 PM, John Rudd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
A postmaster who doesn't check their logs in any fashion deserves
whatever they get. Including having all of the spam sail through
unchecked. Or having their domain actually RBL'ed (ie. routed to null)
because they've continued to do queries well past any reasonable
expiration period.
Generate all misses: doesn't penalize the good postmasters, don't care
about the effect on the bad postmasters.
Generate all hits: penalizes the good postmasters, don't care about the
effect on the bad postmasters.
I think you're mistaken. Generating all hits does not penalize a
"good" postmaster, because no good postmaster will be using an RBL
that's been dead for over a year.
That's only specific to this case. I'm talking about from day 1 of the RBL
going dark.
But that's exactly what this whole thread is about, an RBL that wants to
go dark but is still being hammered upon by unmaintained mail systems.
This thread was started by a mail-admin-wanabe who was asking why his
systems suddenly started rejecting all mail. That PROVES that he was still
using the dead RBL and needed the clue-by-4 along side the head to wake
him up.
This is not the first time an expiring RBL resorted to that technique and
probably will not be the last (sad to say).
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