Ive been listed in list.dsbl.org - how do I configure so as to get unlisted

[Andrew Mathews]

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Collins Richey wrote:
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| Yes, it is a no win situation.  My previous employer allowed no mail
| retrieval from the corporate network accept via the corporate Outlook
| system.  Inconvenient for a few, but it worked.  It still failed to
| protect them from the soBig virus <grin>.

Yeah, it's never ending, especially in the virus/worm prone world of MS.

| What all of us are describing is a more insidious thing.  Yes, there is
| lots of spam, but inventive mail filters can be devised to filter much
| of it to/dev/null.  I'm only interested in the little guy: me.  My
| computer is not infected with anything, and I resent it when one of the
| big guys (you in this case, or anyone who subscribes to the kill
| anything in a broad range theory) decides to make my life difficult
| because I have a superficial resemblance (i.e. similar ip address) to
| someone who happens to be a bad guy.
|
|

Mail filters are only a stopgap, invented by necessity. For every one
designed, a new way to avoid it will be developed. This will turn into a
vicious circle with no end. I don't consider it a solution, as much as a
band aid for a broken bone. When I use dnsbls, I choose them based upon
their reputation, their responsiveness in both listing and delisting,
(yes people do fix their systems and deserve to get off the blacklist as
quickly as possible) and their methodology. If the blacklist is as
abusive as the spammer, I won't use them, period. That means no
netblocks, only individual ip's that they test themselves.
For what it's worth, I still have one machine that is caught in a
vicious circle itself. It runs an ancient version of AIX (which ships
sendmail as an open relay by default, even 5.2) that can't be upgraded
to a newer version. I can't get it delisted without turning sendmail
back on, so it sits, listed but not open. Can't upgrade the os because
of legacy applications, can't upgrade sendmail because of the os, and
can't delist it until I can do the first two. Repeat.
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