Paul Russell <pruss...@nd.edu> wrote: >On 3/12/2012 12:58, Simon Loewenthal wrote: >> >> At first glance: >> This is private black list of email assesses maintened by many. Free >to use, but it'll turn into a huge file for a server to parse. >> >> Eventually we moved from hosts files to DNS :) >> >> I should rather block content not email addresses. > >The list was originally started by a group of email administrators in >higher education who >were attempting to deal with an epidemic of compromised accounts that >were being exploited >to send password phishing spam, mostly to addresses at other colleges >and universities. At >that point in time, it was easier to filter by sender address or >reply-to address than >content. Over time, the phishers seem to have expanded the target >demographic to include >everyone everywhere.
The list could be accessed by DNS and used as an rbl. -- Dogs are tough. I've been interrogating this one for hours and he still won't tell me who's a good boy. simon@klunky / .co.uk / .org
