(was Re: DIGEX) dnsreports.com/dnsstuff.com

[List Mail User <tr...@Plectere.com>]

>>From users-return-22339-track=plectere.com@spamassassin.apache.org Tue Jan 18 15:55:21 2005
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From: Matt Kettler <mk...@evi-inc.com>
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>No listing in any blacklists:
>http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/ip4r.ch?ip=164.109.26.27
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	I don't know about digex, but dnsstuff.com is listed in SPEWS level 1
and level 2, completewhois.org and whois.rfc-ignnorant.org.  BTW. I personally
don't trust anyone with a disconnected telephone number, and they seem to
probe my own address space quite often (both DNS and SMTP testing), always
tracing back to a dial-up account or a proxy somewhere (with those irritating
"ad"'s saying "this is not abuse" - example from one of their "relay" tests:

to=<No...@DNSreport.com>.

	At least that's what the email triggered on my SA report (and of
course spamhaus is on rfci's abuse list, like many anti-spam organizations
are on either the abuse and/or the postmaster lists - they can't afford to
devote a human to processing the mail-bombing that occurs, though I believe
ISPs can't justify the same excuse - they are run-for-profit concerns, and
that should be just one of the costs of doing business).

>...
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	Paul Shupak

Re: (was Re: DIGEX) dnsreports.com/dnsstuff.com

[Matt Kettler <mk...@comcast.net>]

At 10:44 PM 1/18/2005, List Mail User wrote:
>         I don't know about digex, but dnsstuff.com is listed in SPEWS level 1
>and level 2, completewhois.org and whois.rfc-ignnorant.org.  BTW. I personally
>don't trust anyone with a disconnected telephone number, and they seem to
>probe my own address space quite often (both DNS and SMTP testing), always
>tracing back to a dial-up account or a proxy somewhere (with those irritating
>"ad"'s saying "this is not abuse" - example from one of their "relay" tests:
>
>to=<No...@DNSreport.com>.
>
>         At least that's what the email triggered on my SA report (and of
>course spamhaus is on rfci's abuse list, like many anti-spam organizations
>are on either the abuse and/or the postmaster lists - they can't afford to
>devote a human to processing the mail-bombing that occurs, though I believe
>ISPs can't justify the same excuse - they are run-for-profit concerns, and
>that should be just one of the costs of doing business).

I find that entire complaint amusing.

So, you consider open relay tests mailbombs...

Why are you accepting them in the first place?