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Re: [Asrg] draft-irtf-asrg-bcp-blacklists-07 [re-send]

2011-03-01 15:06:41
On 1 Mar 2011, at 21:38, Seth wrote:

Consider: BigISP is a large user of DNSBL, and pays a lot of money to
DSNBL for that usage.  BigISP gets a high-paying spammer it doesn't
want to remove, and tells DNSBL "If you list us, we'll stop using you
and stop paying you."

In your scenario the DNSBL is entering into a pink contract with a 
spam-friendly ISP to facilitate spam to the DNSBL's other paying customers.

You could help bolster your scenario by using as example some criminal botnet 
gangs as the DNSBL customers, since they can pay much more to the DNSBL to let 
tons of botnet spam through. If a DNSBL is going to make a pink contract with 
an ISP to let spam through for money, why stop there?

(it's a rhetorical question, no need for an answer)

  Steve Linford
  The Spamhaus Project
  http://www.spamhaus.org
  

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