Re: OT: dnsbl.sorbs.net - help explaining to Mozilla list maintainers why outright blocking is bad

2016-06-17 Thread Michael J Wise
SORBS is very good at detecting stale lists, typo domains, and ... abusers using your service. I'd prefer to not use it as a block, but certainly an advice for filtering. If you're the only one using an IP that got listed in SORBS, you need to seriously rethink how often you are mailing your cust

Re: OT: dnsbl.sorbs.net - help explaining to Mozilla list maintainers why outright blocking is bad

2016-06-17 Thread Brett Maxfield
sorbs is not always a consistent organization, both listing and delisting can be chaotic, i don't think they have a policy based system, it has in the past been based on reporting that is vetted only sporadically, you'd think mozilla would only use dnsbl from larger organisations with a policy

Re: OT: dnsbl.sorbs.net - help explaining to Mozilla list maintainers why outright blocking is bad

2016-06-17 Thread Tanstaafl
On 6/17/2016 10:05 AM, wie...@porcupine.org (Wietse Venema) wrote: > [mozilla.org using SORBS as a veto] > > Looks like they disabled SORBS. > https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1280451#c5 Yes, thankfully he reconsidered after I begged... Thanks, and sorry for the noise...

Re: OT: dnsbl.sorbs.net - help explaining to Mozilla list maintainers why outright blocking is bad

2016-06-17 Thread lists
.    Original Message   From: Tanstaafl Sent: Friday, June 17, 2016 6:11 AM To: postfix users Subject: OT: dnsbl.sorbs.net - help explaining to Mozilla list maintainers why outright blocking is bad Hello, I've been experiencing and on/off again problem with my shared dreamhost account IP

Re: OT: dnsbl.sorbs.net - help explaining to Mozilla list maintainers why outright blocking is bad

2016-06-17 Thread Wietse Venema
[mozilla.org using SORBS as a veto] Looks like they disabled SORBS. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1280451#c5 Wietse

OT: dnsbl.sorbs.net - help explaining to Mozilla list maintainers why outright blocking is bad

2016-06-17 Thread Tanstaafl
Hello, I've been experiencing and on/off again problem with my shared dreamhost account IP block getting listed by SORBS. The only reason I know this is because apparently the Mozilla list maintainers have configured all of the Mozilla discussion lists to outright BLOCK based on being listed by d