Hello, Russ Allbery <r...@debian.org> writes:
> Michael Welle <mwe012...@gmx.net> writes: > >> I just tried to report a bug. To show how one can reproduce >> the bug I needed an url, I chose www.foo.org for that purpose. The >> result: > >> <sub...@bugs.debian.org>: >> 140.211.15.34 failed after I sent the message. >> Remote host said: 550-Blacklisted URL in message. (foo.org) in [black]. See >> 550 http://lookup.uribl.com. > >> WTF? Interesting user experience, bug reporters will like that big >> time... > > The problem here is that foo.org is a real domain, and one that appears to > be owned by one of those domain parking companies that quite likely could > be doing lots of grey things with the domain. A lot of those companies > are at the least spammers. > > In this particular case, it's in a blacklist with a zero-false-positive > goal, which *probably* (although with blacklists it's always suspect) > means that there really was a spamvertised site or other direct spam usage > of that URL, although it's possible that the reports were from "generic" > URL usages similar to yours mixed in with spam. > > There are various registered domains specifically for use for your purpose > (example.com, example.org, example.net, and others). It's generally best > to use them for any generic example rather than a domain that could be > real. I personally don't like services that blacklist hostnames for reasons that I can't control. IIRC even machines controlled by the big Linux projects appeared on such blacklists in the past. If you design your infrastructure around such services your design is f* up, IMO. Anyways, what if I want to report a bug that happens if I use foo.org? Regards hmw -- biff4emacsen - A biff-like tool for (X)Emacs http://www.c0t0d0s0.de/biff4emacsen/biff4emacsen.html Flood - Your friendly network packet generator http://www.c0t0d0s0.de/flood/flood.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87ehs7dchm....@luisa.c0t0d0s0.de
