On Thu, 12 Jul 2001, Byron Lunz wrote:
> Does anyone here have any idea who's behind this?
No, the person running it has decided to remain anonymous to avoid some of
the litigation surrounding other mail blackhole lists have experienced.
Others have tried to get this person to identify him/herself without
success.
> You end up on this list by not confirming email addresses, either
> now or in the past, before sending mail to those addresses. IPs are
> added to this list by a semi-automated process. Please send mail to
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] for more details.
The purpose of this blackhole list is to block mailing lists servers with
lists that do not require confirmation to subscribe. However the current
methodology and attitude of the maintainer has not been very well received
in the anti-spam community, so I'm not sure if a lot of people are using
it. If you do have non-confirm mailing lists, now might be a good time to
move to confirmation though, as non-confirm mailing lists may be as
unacceptable as open relays are now within the next couple of years.
---- James Lick ---- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---- http://drivel.com/ ----
