-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Monday, March 03, 2003, Thomas Fernandez wrote...
>> But more and more ISPs use blacklists and even SpamCop uses his >> Monkeys.com open relay blacklist :-(((. > I don't like what I'm reading. Julian Haight was for me "the good > guy on the internet". I know SpamCop checks with monkeys.com, but I > didn't know monkeys.com lists false positives. So is reporting to > SpamCop still good? It's not that they always list false positives. Often you'll find if they check a host, and find it open (proxies on monkeys.com I believe), they don't alert the owner, but black list it.... They then find out it is a dial-up/dsl/isdn with a dynamic IP address, and for "the safety of the internet", blacklist that block too. As you can see... from one persons mistake, it can result in the possible 254 people being blocked immediately. Nice huh? What is even worse is if you are on a large ISP, say verizon, or AOL for example, where their IP blocks span whole blocks... so you could be caught in a nasty block from caused by somebody on the other side of the country, not even on the same subnet as yourself. I personally think submitting to SpamCop is a good idea as it allows spam reports to be submitted quickly. I'm not sure what SpamCop does with the information it has, I am on the fence. I noticed they submit the addresses for testing at the various blacklists if they aren't found in a lookup... That can be a good and bad thing I guess. - -- Jonathan Angliss ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Comment: Fingerprint: 676A 1701 665B E343 E393 B8D2 2B83 E814 F8FD 1F73 iQA/AwUBPmQyhiuD6BT4/R9zEQKGbACdFGLWeiVtRymyUaHc1oHp+nBL5QoAnjUx Z6Pls1L7URakVH/mu+DHdKO3 =vQpO -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ________________________________________________ Current version is 1.62 | "Using TBUDL" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
