McDonald, Dan wrote: > No, it boils down to the attitude in your e-mail - "Why didn't the > SpamAssassin benefactors do their job better". I for one am impressed > with their willingness to provide such a useful piece of software, and > maintain it. But most of them have real jobs, and don't spend every > waking moment trolling the webpages of obscure rbl'slooking for notices > that things are borked. > >
...and I bet there are still commercial anti-spam products using dsbl.org because they haven't figured it out either :-) Also, dsbl.org was returning "OK" DNS records for every request, so having some process that "checks" that each RBL SA uses was still working wouldn't have detected a fault - unless it starts flagging errors because dsbl.org wasn't catching anything. The decision how to make an RBL server act *on failure* is pretty much up to the owner. No standards == no way to automatically/consistently check. The wetware method still works fine on occasion ;-) -- Cheers Jason Haar Information Security Manager, Trimble Navigation Ltd. Phone: +64 3 9635 377 Fax: +64 3 9635 417 PGP Fingerprint: 7A2E 0407 C9A6 CAF6 2B9F 8422 C063 5EBB FE1D 66D1
