On 1/1/2015 13:40, Adam Back wrote: > nah what am I thinking probably! 1988 if not earlier, 27 years :) > > The point is block lists suck, they're always blocking false things, > and vigilante abusive takes 3x longer to take you off than for you to > complain or unresponsive etc.
DNSBLs do occasionally get false positives, this is true. In this case, it is not really a false positive if spammers are relaying spam through your insecure server is it? > They'll also falsely block you not because your config is insecure but > because it doesnt match their preferred configuration. Quite > irritating if you ever tried running your own mail server. Their preferred configuration is "is it relaying spam or not?". Open relays = relaying spam. He can run his open relay if he wants to, but, he also loses all right to bitching about getting blacklisted when his open relay is spewing garbage. -- Sadiq Saif https://staticsafe.ca _______________________________________________ cryptography mailing list [email protected] http://lists.randombit.net/mailman/listinfo/cryptography
