On Sun, 22 Dec 2002 00:36:42 -0500, Jeff Adams wrote: > If the lists were useless, no one would use them.
Many do use them not wisely. The blacklists which I know, differentiate bewetween "Open relay", "Dialin spam source" and "confirmed spam source", answering with different addresses for DNS queries to indicate these differences. Not to take these differences into account, i.e. treating a "Open relay" the same way as a "Confirmed spam source" is bad practice. > If no one is using them, there would be no need maintain them. Obviously the maintenance is of very varying quality. I have the impression that some accept any denounciation by a spare time Pinkerton who was annoyed by some email. E.g. the listserver of the well known Topica service was flagged by one of the blacklisters. When using these services, one should procede with with extreme care, according to my experiences, and not treat any suspicion as a valid conviction. An example of bad usage of blacklisters is the domain hosting this list which blocks mail from legitimate subscribers to this list based on spurious grounds -- I myself have been victim of this, because two of the thousands of IP addresses assigned randomly by my ISP to its dial-in customers was listed by one of those blacklisters. Yours, L�ko Willms ----------------------------------------------- Frankfurt/Main ------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe please go to http://www.sambar.ch/list/
