Re: Last Call: draft-irtf-asrg-dnsbl (DNS Blacklists and Whitelists)

[Steve Linford <linford at spamhaus.org>]

On 11 Nov 2008, at 15:38, Theodore Tso wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 05:12:56PM +0000, Steve Linford wrote:
> > I certainly agree that there are hundreds of small DNSBLs run from  
> > kid's
> > bedrooms which list on incomprehensible wildly over-broad policies  
> > and
> > that such DNSBLs are both antagonistic and useless and as a result  
> > are
> > used by almost nobody - that's 'market force'. But to pretend that  
> > the
> > dozen major DNSBLs make listings based on "unauthenticated rumor" or
> > "because the IP did not have 'mail.' or 'mx.'" is just silly mud- 
> > slinging
> > itself based on equally "unauthenticated rumor" and is especially  
> > odd if
> > it's coming from within IETF itself.
>
> Let me get this straight.

Yes please...

> It's OK to block e-mail messages on the
> basis of unauthenticated rumors

No.

  Steve Linford
  The Spamhaus Project
  http://www.spamhaus.org


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