On Sat, Aug 11, 2001 at 01:19:45PM -0400, Charles Sprickman wrote:
Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2001 13:19:45 -0400 (EDT) From: Charles Sprickman <spork@inch.com> Subject: Re: Affects of the balkanization of mail blacklisting
On Sat, 11 Aug 2001, Lou Katz wrote:
Complain to the domain who got listed in the first place, wink wink, nudge nudge.
Ummm, the DUL is a list of dialup ports. When it was started, the intent
Right. It is then surprising that an IP address which was listed as a dialup suddenly wasn't.
was not to punish ISPs listed there, but to give mail admins a list of IPs that represent dialup ports, which generally should not be sending mail directly. It is not a mark of shame to be on the DUL. Some of us actually *volunteered* such information to maps.
Which brings me to another point that's been eating at me since maps went commercial... DUL seemed like more of a community effort than RBL or RSS. Many entries were added by people volunteering their own information with the idea that it was for the "common good". I for one, feel shafted that this list to which I contributed, is only available if I choose to pay a sizable amount of money.
A very good point - the DUL was/is different from the other two lists, and perhaps should have been treated differently. As I understood it, some ISPs 'contributed' their configurations as part of ensuring that direct-to-mx spam would be reduced.
As for MAPS working out deals for smaller customers, I've not yet received any replies from their sales kritters, which I will interpret as a "NO".
Likewise. All I got was an autoack and a ticket number. -=[L]=-