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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Affects of the balkanization of mail blacklisting
More so, it is trivial to "overrrule" a MAPS listing in your mail server or router if you don't agree with it. So there's no "all or nothing" rule either. This applies to any DNS-based, and probably other types, of BLs. -C > But you have yet to ever tell anyone how, exactly, MAPS does any > censoring. They provide(d?) a list of IP addresses. That is _all_ they > have ever done. I cannot go up to Vixie or MAPS and say "filter my mail > for me", nor have I ever (that I'm aware of) been able to do so. MAPS > does NOT censor anything. Period. They provide a set of information, > which ISPs make a (presumably informed) decision to do filtering (or > censorship, if you want to call it that) based on. That is a business > decision for those ISPs to make, a right which I'm pretty sure I recall > you defending at some point in one of the monthly MAPS/ORBS/whoever is > evil flamewars. > > You dance around the real facts in this matter _every single time_ this is > brought up. Please explain to me, exactly how MAPS censors anything. > I'll look forward to your reply. And don't tell me MAPS filtering is > enabled by default in Sendmail, or point me to your propaganda page - > the first one isn't true, and I've read the second before - it doesn't > answer my question. > > And if you can't come up with an explanation, can we please end this > monthly flamewar early and keep me from having to add some more rules to > my .procmailrc? > > Tim > > -- > Tim Wilde > [email protected] > Systems Administrator > Dynamic DNS Network Services > http://www.dyndns.org/ > -- --------------------------- Christopher A. Woodfield [email protected] PGP Public Key: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xB887618B
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