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Re: ISP Whitelist (was Re: NOC contact for he.net)


From: "Anne P. Mitchell, Esq." <amitchell () habeas com>
Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2003 18:27:47 -0700



That query configuration in SpamAssassin was incorrect, and has been
fixed in 2.60.  While I apologize that it caused you an
inconvenience, it was in fact set up like that without our
knowledge.  It was querying the HIL even if there were no Habeas
headers present in the inbound email in question, so it was querying
the HIL for every single piece of email going through SA. 

In other words, the HIL is designed to only counteract the Mark, and
not operate as a bl(a|o)cklist. I've seen a lot of confusion
concerning people's perceptions on that (read the iCop interview.
haha).

<cough> 

Correct, although if people choose to use it as a blocklist, that is 
their business.  But the only IP addresses on there are those for 
which we have in hand email infringing our mark, and we remove 
the listing as soon at the infringement stops.

Anne




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