On Tue, 2019-01-08 at 11:26 -0500, Rob McEwen wrote: > On 1/8/2019 10:26 AM, Jim Popovitch via mailop wrote: > > > Which spammer would not pay that fee if they would be interested > > > to > > > get whitelisted? > > > > That's not how it works, and frankly you should know that as a > > security > > expert. > > At the very least, it is a suspicious practice. And certain people > high up in the industry have strongly warned me against ever doing > ANYTHING like that...
The same has been said about HTML emails...but that hasn't stopped folks from using them. ;-) IMO "suspicious practice" is a wide brush. One might say the same about all DNSBLs being suspicious because there is a fair amount of ambiguity, mystery, and uncertainty. The reality is pay-to-play works (both at Barracuda and UCE Protect), like it or not, it is an extremely small entry point for entry level players and it provides a way for the operators of those BLs to know exactly who they are whitelisting. The only other solution would be an Internet Operators License ;-) -Jim P. _______________________________________________ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://chilli.nosignal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mailop
