Perhaps an acknowledgement it is a problem and a willingness to fix it
would help.
Richard
On 2024-02-15 3:36 p.m., Robert L Mathews via mailop wrote:
On Feb 15, 2024, at 1:10 AM, Riccardo Alfieri via mailop <mailop@mailop.org>
wrote:
That is exactly the root cause in this case. That .org address hit a bunch of
typotraps, with different typoed domains, not recycled ones. That shows lack of
COI from the library. From the robots POV the behaviour is not that much
different from other spam operations.
That all makes sense, and I agree it's reasonable that such behavior gets
senders automatically listed in various blocklists.
I was mostly surprised that after reviewing it, Spamhaus's policy is that this behavior
(not using COI and hitting spamtraps as a result, for messages that in other respects are
wanted by recipients and transactional) is sufficient to maintain an HBL listing with a
notation of "This email address is used for malicious activities".
If any sender who doesn't use COI can potentially end up with a listing on the Spamhaus
HBL for "malicious activities", it doesn't seem to justify the suggested 8
SpamAssassin points. I would (perhaps naively) expect such a listing to be removed when
it turned out to be also blocking legitimate mail.
But I guess that's more of a "my problem as a Spamhaus customer" thing than a
mailop thing....!
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