This is an appalling unilateral abuse of VeriSign's power.
Forget about the negative consequences. They are simply abusing their
control over these TLDs to direct users who make typos to their site.
Anyone know appropriate VeriSign, ICANN, or other e-mail addresses that we
can express our dissatisfaction to?
Wrolf Courtney
Donovan Data Systems, Inc.
(212) 633-5470
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Kristian Koehntopp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> How does this affect SpamAssassin and if it does, what are we doing
> about this?
It has a very negative effect on some tests, particularly
NO_DNS_FOR_FROM which caught roughly 2% of spam with a 99.9% accuracy
rate (those are my real-time numbers which are better than my corpus
numbers since the test is highly time-sensitive).
If you object to the change, complaining to ICANN and Verisign might not
hurt. If you take the further step of switching your registrations
elsewhere, I would suggest calling Verisign to let them know why (and
give them your name and the domain name you have moved so they know you
were a paying customer).
As far as the SpamAssassin DNS tests go, I'm thinking about the best
course of action. Someone might come up with a better solution (that
requires less work on our part) than treating their web server IP
address to be the same thing as NXDOMAIN.
Daniel
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