On Sat, 6 Jul 2002 the voices made Ben Jackson write:
> On Tue, Jul 02, 2002 at 04:24:38AM +0200, Tony L. Svanstrom wrote:
> >
> > I've been hit by this too, and I can't help but think that these blacklists do
> > more harm than good. Spammers will easily move on, but for the small non-tech
> > company it could take a week of no business before they're back on track
> > again...
>
> If you share a mail server or a netblock with a spammer and those
> addresses don't end up on a centralized blacklist, they'll start getting
> on local blacklists, like mine. You think it's hard to get off SPEWS?
> You don't even *know* you're on my list. Or my friend Michael's list,
> or my friend Bob's list...
True, but people with their own blacklists usually know what they're doing;
when you end up on a big one there are a lot of clueless admins out there that
simply can't unblacklist the domain locally until the problem is fixed.
I once had a whole foreign office that couldn't be reached by the main office
due to a server getting blacklisted, and that foreign office ISP couldn't do a
thing about it.
/Tony
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