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On Sat, Aug 11, 2001 at 01:19:45PM -0400, Charles Sprickman wrote: > Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2001 13:19:45 -0400 (EDT) > From: Charles Sprickman <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: Affects of the balkanization of mail blacklisting > > On Sat, 11 Aug 2001, Lou Katz wrote: > > > Complain to the domain who got listed in the first place, wink wink, > > nudge nudge. > > Ummm, the DUL is a list of dialup ports. When it was started, the intent Right. It is then surprising that an IP address which was listed as a dialup suddenly wasn't. > was not to punish ISPs listed there, but to give mail admins a list of IPs > that represent dialup ports, which generally should not be sending mail > directly. It is not a mark of shame to be on the DUL. Some of us > actually *volunteered* such information to maps. > > Which brings me to another point that's been eating at me since maps went > commercial... DUL seemed like more of a community effort than RBL or RSS. > Many entries were added by people volunteering their own information with > the idea that it was for the "common good". I for one, feel shafted that > this list to which I contributed, is only available if I choose to pay a > sizable amount of money. A very good point - the DUL was/is different from the other two lists, and perhaps should have been treated differently. As I understood it, some ISPs 'contributed' their configurations as part of ensuring that direct-to-mx spam would be reduced. > > As for MAPS working out deals for smaller customers, I've not yet received > any replies from their sales kritters, which I will interpret as a "NO". Likewise. All I got was an autoack and a ticket number. -=[L]=-
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