Re: [Spamhaus Notice] Reminder of changes to the Spamhaus beta Domain Blocklist & request for feedback

2021-12-15 Thread Grant Taylor
On 12/15/21 1:00 PM, Riccardo Alfieri wrote: We’d like to say a big “thank you” to all of you who have been testing the beta version of the Spamhaus Domain Blocklist (DBL) with hostnames. :-) You're welcome. Thank you for making it available. How are you getting on with it? Have you encounte

Re: Do these domains merit blocking?

2021-12-15 Thread Grant Taylor
On 12/15/21 9:39 AM, Bill Cole wrote: There has recently been a spate of odd spams to harvested addresses asking hypothetical questions about domains' privacy practices. It turns out this is a grad student enrolling human subjects in a study without informed consent... The explanation is at ht

[Spamhaus Notice] Reminder of changes to the Spamhaus beta Domain Blocklist & request for feedback

2021-12-15 Thread Riccardo Alfieri
We’d like to say a big “thank you” to all of you who have been testing the beta version of the Spamhaus Domain Blocklist (DBL) with hostnames. How are you getting on with it? Have you encountered issues? Are you noticing a reduction in false positives with the abused-legit component of the DBL

Re: Do these domains merit blocking?

2021-12-15 Thread Alan Hodgson
On Wed, 2021-12-15 at 10:55 -0800, Alan Hodgson wrote: > > I got a couple to an actual human who answered > ab...@princeton.edu. I can forward them privately. Let me rephrase that; I complained to ab...@princeton.edu and actually heard back from a human, to whom I have since sent copies of the sp

Re: Do these domains merit blocking?

2021-12-15 Thread Alan Hodgson
On Wed, 2021-12-15 at 13:24 -0500, Charles Sprickman wrote: > Does anyone have a sample of one of their emails? > > I’m composing a brief nastygram and would like to get my eyes on > one before finishing up. > I got a couple to an actual human who answered ab...@princeton.edu. I can forward them

Re: Do these domains merit blocking?

2021-12-15 Thread Bert Van de Poel
You can find the email we received from them here http://paste.debian.net/1223611/ (just the body, idk if anyone also want headers) Must admit I thought it was a scam, just because it was its own domain, out of the blue and as many have mentioned unsolicited. Bert On 15/12/2021 19:24, Charl

Re: Do these domains merit blocking?

2021-12-15 Thread Charles Sprickman
Does anyone have a sample of one of their emails? I’m composing a brief nastygram and would like to get my eyes on one before finishing up. Thanks, Charles > On Dec 15, 2021, at 11:39 AM, Bill Cole > wrote: > > There has recently been a spate of odd spams to harvested addresses asking > hy

Re: Do these domains merit blocking?

2021-12-15 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
You can quote me: If the pope itself is sending me the cure to cancer but he doesn't have my consent then it IS spam and I would block it and depending on the way the domain manager handles it I would block the domain. KAM On Wed, Dec 15, 2021, 11:40 Bill Cole < sausers-20150...@billmail.scconsul

Re: Do these domains merit blocking?

2021-12-15 Thread Rob McEwen
On 12/15/2021 11:39 AM, Bill Cole wrote: Am I missing something special that makes such research spam somehow not spam? Everyone thinks that their own unsolicited bulk email - isn't spam. But a line must be drawn somewhere. In this case, the sender has absolutely no preexisting relationship

Re: Do these domains merit blocking?

2021-12-15 Thread Alan Hodgson
On Wed, 2021-12-15 at 11:39 -0500, Bill Cole wrote: > > A customer has expressed mild dismay at the concept that a fine > research institution should be "punished for doing research." I'm > less attached to Princeton than my NJ-based customer and (having > worked in a NIH-funded lab) less idolizin

Do these domains merit blocking?

2021-12-15 Thread Bill Cole
There has recently been a spate of odd spams to harvested addresses asking hypothetical questions about domains' privacy practices. It turns out this is a grad student enrolling human subjects in a study without informed consent... The explanation is at https://measurement.cs.princeton.edu/priva