On Wed, May 12, 2004 at 11:37:41AM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote:
> On Wed, 12 May 2004, Branden Robinson wrote:
>
> > My home box is on all kind of blacklists despite the fact that my IP
> > address hasn't changed in over a year. In my experience, blacklist
> > maintainers really do not give a shit about collateral damage. It's
> > just not important to them.
>
> If your IP has not really changed in over a year, then there should be
> at least one kind of blacklist on which your home box should not be,
> namely, those who list open proxies, like list.dsbl.org or cbl.abuseat.org.
>
> Removing one's machine from list.dsbl.org is easy. Removing it from
> cbl.abuseat.org is completely trivial.
That's hardly the point; you shouldn't be on that blacklist in the first
place. If there were just one blacklist on the Internet, making sure you
stay off that list wouldn't be a problem. As it is, there's a fairly
large number of blacklists, each with different policies for putting IP
addresses on it or for removing them; and it's often not even possible
to find out exactly where you're blacklisted this time without
contacting the admin (which, of course, isn't possible since you're
blacklisted).
My policy is simple: if /you/ don't want to receive my mail, don't
expect I'll be jumping through hoops to make sure you will. I don't
waste my time on such things.
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