Now thats a name from the past. Bill, you’d probably know some of the spammer domains where they complained about spamhaus and other RBLs…
Its been a while since I followed all of this stuff from Usenet days… > On May 3, 2017, at 10:25 AM, Bill Cole > <postfixlists-070...@billmail.scconsult.com> wrote: > > On 2 May 2017, at 10:56, li...@lazygranch.com wrote: > >> Would a spammy email server only trigger one RBL? > > Sure. > >> While mxtoolbox looks complete, there are more RBLs than on their list. I >> never knew Trend Micro had a RBL. > > Funny story: technically Trend Micro has the ONLY "RBL" because that's a > registered trademark. They bought that trademark along with all of the other > intellectual property and ongoing operations of Mail Abuse Prevention > Systems, L.L.C. ~15 years ago. MAPS was a not-for-profit founded by Paul > Vixie, who invented the DNSBL mechanism and ran the first DNSBL: the Realtime > Blackhole List, a.k.a. RBL. > > As far as I can tell, the active defense of that trademark has been almost > invisible for over a decade, so while DNSBL is the formally correct generic > term, RBL may not even be legally defensible as a trademark any more but one > of the Trend Micro DNSBL's is actually named RBL. > >> Spamrl.com is one I can't stay off of. They do honor their one week >> reprieve. Like I said, I managed to get them removed from servers that I >> communicate with. There are over a hundred RBLs. If one is a problem child, >> dump it. >> >> Pulled right from their website. >> "Unfortunately, we cannot disclose any details about WHY your IP has a bad >> reputation." >> >> This thread is about spamrl.com, and no, I'm not a participant in the >> thread. >> http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=1598238 >> >> Supposedly spamrl.com uses honeypots, which makes me wonder if a prankster >> can spoof headers and spam the honeypots just to drum up customers for >> commercial white lists. > > The spamrl.com operation is just an alternative face for spamexperts.com and > one of their inputs is feedback from customers, who can report errors in > their filtering to spamrl.com addresses for mitigation.
