Hi!

A very very bad example of how not to retire a rbl. 

What they did was just list the world and let everybody suffer with it. This is 
just a very malicious act and not now things should have executed at all. 

With kind regards,
Raymond Dijkxhoorn

> Op 7 mrt 2025 om 10:40 heeft Carsten Schiefner via mailop <[email protected]> 
> het volgende geschreven:
> 
> Hi Lars & all,
> 
>> On 07.03.2025 10:13, Lars Bornemann via mailop wrote:
>> We have landed on the following DNS blacklist with our mail servers: 
>> “ix.dnsbl.manitu.net <http://ix.dnsbl.manitu.net>”. This is reported by our 
>> monitoring system (Nagios).
>> According to the website, this blacklist has been out of service since 
>> January 2025.
>> Now our question, how can it be that we still end up on this list and how 
>> can we have ourselves removed again?
> 
> no chance - as it appears, Manitu/Nixspam has gone berzerk:
> 
>> Subject: [mailop] Manitu listing the world?
>> Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2025 09:43:57 +0100
>> From: lukn via mailop <[email protected]>
>> Reply-To: lukn <[email protected]>
>> To: [email protected]
>> Hello List
>> I'm aware Manitu/Nixspam shut down a while ago, but iirc they promised RFC 
>> compliant slow shutdown. As of today we see an increased number of rejects 
>> due to Manitu listings. A quick lookup of some samples indicates that 
>> ix.dnsbl.manitu.net is returning 127.0.0.2 for every query. Thus any mail 
>> administrator still querying that list results in their clients having a 
>> very quiet inbox today...
>> Can anyone confirm? Is there a statement from Manitu?
> 
> And as it appears the entire of Berlin's public service might have a quiet 
> friday today in terms of inbound external email - that's how I got to notice 
> this failure.
> 
> Cheers from Berlin-Friedenau
> 
>    -C.
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