On 4/6/12 9:49 AM, George Herbert wrote:
This seems like a very 1999 anti-spam attitude.
I have been doing anti-spam a long long time - literally since before
Canter and Siegel (who I had as customers...) and
befor...@cup.portal.com.
It's not 1999 anymore. Patrick is not the enemy. Your attitude is
worrying. The "I am not responsible for who uses the blacklist or
what that means" isn't good enough anymore.
I know he's not the enemy. Hate the idea that he would be.
The only reason why I responded the way I did, was because I sit here,
watching everyone talk about how SORBS is bad this, how they are bad
that, how they need to change this, and how they need to change how they
operate to their guidelines, not SORBS's guidelines.
Its not directed at Patrick. I just got the feeling like he was saying
its okay for these people to dictate how SORBS operates.
Like its been said, DNSbl's have a right to run as they see fit, and
handle removals as they see fit. Just like every ISP has the right to
run their network as they see fit, and refuse to remove spamming
customers and deal with network abuse.
I've been working on variations of the AHBL since 1998 or so under
different names, so if I seem 'old school' in my beliefs how the DNSbl
is run, that's probably why.
Reality is, people use a DNSbl how they see fit. I can't really control
that without restricting access, requiring payments or registration,
etc. I gave up years ago trying to tell people how not to use it, since
noone actually listens.
--
Brielle Bruns
The Summit Open Source Development Group
http://www.sosdg.org / http://www.ahbl.org
