Re: Spamhaus Blacklist
On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 10:15 PM, Bob Holtzman <holtzm@cox.net> wrote:
> On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 01:47:50PM +0200, Jan Ingvoldstad wrote:
>> On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 12:06 PM, basti <mailinglist@unix-solution.de> wrote:
>> > Actually I get some spam from "84.19.164.45"but this ip is not blocked
>> > at the moment.
>>
>>
>> Forward the message including all headers to the abuse contact for the
>> IP address.
>>
>> You can look this up using whois.
>>
>> whois 84.19.164.45 =>
>>
>> % Abuse contact for '84.19.164.32 - 84.19.164.63' is 'abuse@keyweb.de'
>
> I would think that that's a good way of getting a *bunch* of people
> pissed off when the entire block is blacklisted. Better to filter the ip
> at your mail client.
What?
No, you misunderstand.
I'm saying:
Send an _e-mail_ to the abuse contact point for the IP address block owner.
Don't simply blacklist. Well, feel free to add the IP address in
question to a local blacklist, but if you can't be arsed to notify the
netblock owner, don't expect anything to happen with the problem.
--
Jan
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