Michael Peddemors wrote: > It's not that hard to get off blocklists, but suggest you work with a > hosting company that offers 'rwhois'. That way it is easy to see that > you are the new responsible party, and when you were assigned the IP > address, so historical problems should not affect you. >
I see rwhois as just another optional protocol that doesn't solve the problems. First we need a host that supports it. Then we need RBLs that all check and respect it. And/Or we need mail servers that check it and allow legitimate IPs even if they're reported by a RBL. You are correct. It is not that hard to get off blocklists. And correct again (snipped) that it's most effective to take a few minutes to provide a good request for exclusion, even IMO if it's processed by a bot. The problem is that it can take hours to days or more for a list manager to remove an address, and during this process damage might be done. But when we go through the process once with a BL to establish credibility for ourselves and our responsibility for an IPv4 address, we can only hope that they wouldn't block the address again a year later. But some do re-block, because they do not WL individual addresses when they BL an entire class-C address block. And mail servers that use those lists also don't check to see if the IP was banned for individual abuse or as a collective slap on the hand against clients of a host. There is too much inertia and apathy in the world to drive initiatives for better processes. Big changes only seem to be effected when big providers put their foot down and simply block transactions that don't comply with their industry-level decisions.
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