[governance] Spamhaus

[Carlos A. Afonso]

Chaitanya's message gives a hint of what is wrong with several of the 
blacklisters. The point is that a legitimate service might have a user 
which for a number of reasons (email account hijacked, for example) 
sends "bad" messages. This happened a few times in our service in our 
20+ years of operation. Most  of the blacklisters block first and ask 
later (if they do take the trouble to ask, which is not true of most of 
them) even for perfectly identified services (meaning fully identified 
in WHOIS and for which you can easily reach the admin).

This is the main point: blacklisting is a welcome service for users and 
providers alike, provided that a basic code of conduct is followed (like 
the elementary principle of "innocent until proven guilty") and its main 
mission is providing a service to the community and not just gain money 
from providers or sponsors.

[]s fraternos

--c.a.

On 03/27/2013 11:39 PM, Chaitanya Dhareshwar wrote:
> I agree with Suresh on Spamhaus being one of the more focused and
> well-operated DNSBLs out there. I've used them over years and have had
> superb performance and very effective spam filtering. If they blocked off
> someone, it's a very rare possibility that the message is good.
>
> We did maintain a positive whitelist to ensure our key clients dont get
> "filtered" out though; but thats a different matter... Spamhaus had put up
> something about a whitelist they're working on; which I think was
> invite-only when I last checked.
>
> -C
>
> On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 5:45 AM, Suresh Ramasubramanian
> <suresh at hserus.net>wrote:
>
>> Barracuda is a single vendor .. One out of two or three comparatively more
>> obscure ones that seem to do this.
>>
>> In the over a decade spamhaus has operated I have not seen spamhaus people
>> take a single penny from anyone at all in matters to do with listing or
>> removal of IPs.
>>
>> Did you get listed by spamhaus ever?  I am not counting any of the dozens
>> of poorly operated blocklists out there, most of which have one guy and his
>> family dog using them compared to spamhaus that has a footprint of billions
>> of mailboxes across ISPs, civil society organizations, industry and
>> individuals with their own mail servers using it.
>>
>> --srs (iPad)
>>
>> On 27-Mar-2013, at 23:20, "Carlos A. Afonso" <ca at cafonso.ca> wrote:
>>
>>> I have been reporting cases revealing the absurd autonomy antispam
>> businesses have, our services being one of the thousands of victims. Now it
>> seems that finally more voices are joining in trying to at least discuss
>> the issues.
>>>
>>> We have all of our addresses perfectly identified in *thick* WHOIS, we
>> keep to all rules regarding relating our addresses to our services, and
>> still we eventually get caught by an antispam "service" proposing we pay
>> them money to get out of it. I recall the case of the infamous Barracuda,
>> which sells antispam software, as the first to try and extort money from
>> us. Since we protested in quite strong terms and made a bit of a noise,
>> they left us alone. But there are plenty of others.
>>>
>>> Where is the technical community when we need it? :)
>>>
>>> frt rgds
>>>
>>> --c.a.
>>>
>>> On 03/27/2013 10:33 AM, Deirdre Williams wrote:
>>>> And meanwhile, quietly, and apparently below the radar ...
>>>> http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-21954636
>>>> Deirdre
>>>
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