Re: [Asrg] Round 2 of the DNSBL BCP - "collateral damage"

[John Payne <john at sackheads.org>]

On Apr 2, 2008, at 2:09 AM, Matthew Sullivan wrote:

> Your statement was 'that a blacklist does not block email is... wrong'
> and you refer to intent as the supporting factor.  An example of why
> that statement is wrong: the original intent of the OPM was to  
> block IRC
> connections, not to block email.  The OPM's original purpose was to
> block IRC connections and not email. (Two similar but actually  
> different
> statements).  People found the OPM was good for blocking spam as well,
> so they - the users - made the OPM entries block email, not the
> operators of the OPM, and before the users did that, entries did *not*
> block/filter/score email.

I don't know if any of the other people originally involved in OPM  
are around, but I was there from the beginning and it was always my  
intent to use in my MTA configurations.

True, we didn't originally take spamtrap submissions, because we were  
primarily focused on IRC as a detection mechanism, but the spamtrap  
reporting didn't take long to come into use (apparently I committed  
the spamtrap script on June 20th 2002... with the dnsbl-building part  
being checked in on April 6th of that same year - although it looks  
like the dnsbl builder was in place on March 24th according to the  
way back machine).

How time flies :)


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