Re: Every spam is sacred
On Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 02:18:57AM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote:
> They have said "no" using (more or less) the following reasoning:
> Since Debian machines have been listed in several DNSBLs in the past,
> we should not use ANY of them ourselves (which is like saying: since
> we have sent tons of spam in the past via our mailing lists, we should
> accept ALL the spam we receive). Does somebody understand this?
How about, "because we have been unfairly listed as being spammers and
had our mail blocked, even though we were innocent, we refuse to
participate and endorse a system which in the past as been used to
unfairly block innocents, including who were unfortunate enough to
share netblocks with those whose political views were at odds from
those who had run DNSBL's?"
Contenting filtering, I think is great. Delegating to someone else
the power to say whether or not a very large number of people will see
mail from a particular host or network, is more power than I at least
personally am willing to delegate to someone else.
This is a philosophical issue, and I understand there are those who
think that DNS blocking lists are wonderful. But I at least am glad
that the Debian admins have chose to use an approach such as
spamassassin, rather than DNS blacklists.
- Ted
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