On Tue, 27 Apr 2021 19:42:22 -0700 (PDT)
John Hardin wrote:
> IIRC the Hostkarma list is fed by people pointing a backup MX DNS
> host record at *their* MTAs so that they can analyze the traffic and
> harvest the spammers doing "use backup MX to avoid filtering on the
> primary MX". I clearly reca
On Tue, 27 Apr 2021, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
My guess is if you contact the admin of hostkarma directly and offer to host
a honeypot he might take you up on it. But that still won't give you the
ability to change anything in the database.
I cannot imagine trusting a RBL that allowed any huma
My guess is if you contact the admin of hostkarma directly and offer to
host a honeypot he might take you up on it. But that still won't give
you the ability to change anything in the database.
I cannot imagine trusting a RBL that allowed any humans to blacklist
something. Whitelisting is dif
I have generally been a fan of the HOSTKARMA DNSBL over the long term.
Fuzzy memeory is that the operator was responsive and reaasonable.
Long ago (2014) I complained somewhat generally about spamassassin's
DNSBL inclusion policy, and was (quite reasonably) asked for specifics.
This report is te
