Anymore??? When were they "trusted"?
People that run a blacklist without a financial incentive generally are
agressive individuals that have lost their will for tollerance, and
don't want to be bothered by things like false positives. Those with
easy to maintain systems (primarily automated ones based on good
technique, such as CBL) deal less with problems and complaints and
experiences better goodwill and results. Those with harder to maintain
systems and/or bad technique likely have less tolerance for being wrong
and point the finger at others much more often for their own shortcomings.
I do not believe in collateral damage because it mostly hurts innocent
parties and costs them lots of time and lost business and personal
communications, but most blacklists use this as a tool. I believe that
purposeful/practiced collateral damage also caries with it civil
liability, though we have yet to see such a case go to judgment. I have
however seen many instances where blacklist maintainers wise up right
before it is about to cost them legal fees.
These blacklists are free for all to use, so I don't complain too much,
but I do wish that SORBS would change technique, be more receptive to
reports of problems, make problems easier to report, and stop blaming
those that are falsely blocked. You can't make all of the people happy
all of the time when maintaining a blacklist, but they could do better.
Being a Declude user, you should weight them according to not just their
accuracy, but also how it mixes with other tests that you use.
Matt
David Dodell wrote:
Is SORBS not a trusted spam database anymore ... multiple stories
being sent to me that they are not legitimate.
ie
http://www.iadl.org/sorbs/sorbs-story.html
http://www.natesimpson.com/blog/archives/2004/10/07/sorbs-sucks/
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