At 9:36 PM -0500 4/6/03, Brad Spencer wrote:
I got into anti-spam by being the operator of an abused open relay.
I'd consider it to be a favor to me to blocklist it, when it was
open, I'd
I'd consider it a much larger favor to send email to the site
administrator *first*, and blacklist only if that has no effect. For
any site that is actually being administered, that's going to cleanup
the relay far faster than blacklisting would. Blacklisting relies on
enough people subscribing to the blacklist that eventually someone at
the site won't be able to send email to someone they care about, will
recognize what the problem is and report it to the site admin, who
will then go to the blacklist site, figure out what the problem is
from there and fix their system.
That's an awfully inefficient way to communicate a problem.
Certainly puts a different light on the altruism of blacklist
operators.
--
Kee Hinckley
http://www.messagefire.com/ Junk-Free Email Filtering
http://commons.somewhere.com/buzz/ Writings on Technology and Society
I'm not sure which upsets me more: that people are so unwilling to accept
responsibility for their own actions, or that they are so eager to regulate
everyone else's.
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