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Re: [Asrg] Rough consensus on pay to delist

2011-03-07 12:30:27
On 3/7/11 3:02 AM, Graeme Fowler wrote:
Negative-connotation DNSBLs MUST NOT charge fees _or require
donations_ for delisting or expedited delisting. Such a practise
is controversial and likely to damage the reputation of the
DNSBL or the DNSBL operator and may render the DNSBL less useful
than intended.
Graeme,

"or require donations" is overreaching. How about "require substantial donations" or "require donations as punishment".

To be clear, this is NOT about any direct payment to the listing service. The term "donation" is vague and might be construed to mean ALL sources of request be treated alike. Clearly, requests from "free" email services containing thousands of compromised accounts CAN NOT receive the same priority as those from cleaner email services. Blanket statements of this nature suggests requests originating from "fee" versus "free" email not be balanced against limited resources. It seems prudent to advise those making a request, how various sources of requests might be handled. In doing so, one might see this as then requiring donations to those email services with good reputations. Reviewing requests requires expensive wetware where the quality of the service also demands prompt responses to correct obvious errors.

-Doug



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