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Re: fighting spam || avoiding spam



On Tue, Jun 08, 2004 at 09:01:07AM +1000, Matthew Palmer wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 07:04:09PM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote:
> > * All machines which are MX for the debian.org domain MUST reject
> > messages coming from IPs in the xbl.spamhaus.org DNSBL.
> 
> What if spamhaus goes the way of one or more previous DNSBLs and goes
> out of business by placing all IP addresses on it's list?  We'd need
> to draft, vote on, and pass another GR in order to countermand the
> first.

Is Debian really so bureaucratic that we would need to pass a GR to do
something that is common sense? Are we so bureaucratic that we would need
to pass a GR to use DNSBLs in the first place?

What happened to common sense and consensus?

-- 
gram



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