RE: SORBS Contact

["Christopher L. Morrow" <christopher.morrow () verizonbusiness com>]

On Wed, 9 Aug 2006, Robert J. Hantson wrote:

> So with all this talk of Blacklists...  does anyone have any suggestions
> that would be helpful to curb the onslaught of email, without being an
> adminidictator?
>
> Right now, the ONLY list we are using is that which is provided through
> spamcop. They seem to have a list that is dynamic and only blacklists
> during periods of high reports, then takes them off the list after a
> short time...
>
> Or am I just a little naive?

reference comment below about 'hammer to beat with' ... spamcop you
aren't paying for that 'service' right? So what happens when someone
reports someone you do business with? or messes up a report that affects
someone you do business with? "Oops! dropped your email due to a
thirdparty we let 'moderate' our email, sorry!"

you COULD monitor deliveries to unused addresses in your domain and
blacklist based on that... but that's a little dicey at times as well :(

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-nanog () merit edu [mailto:owner-nanog () merit edu] On Behalf Of
> Christopher L. Morrow
> On Wed, 9 Aug 2006, Allan Poindexter wrote:
> > moanings of the hand wringers.  In the meantime my patience with email
> > "lost" silently due to blacklists, etc. is growing thin.
>
> don't let some third party you have no relation to determine the 'fate'
> of
> your email/messages? with all blacklists you run the same risk, someone
> else now controls the fate of your 'service'. Unless you have some very
> large hammer to beat them with it's going to cause you pain eventually,
> when they decide that ${PROVIDER} is 'gone black' or whatever they call
> it
> these days... or they just fat finger some entry.
>
> -Chris