Re: [exim] My DNS Spam and White Lists are Ready for Testing

David Saez Padros wrote:
> Hi !!
>
>> Ok - so here it is. Give it a try and tell me what you think. Here's
>> the instructions on how to use my black list, white list, and yellow
>> list.
>>
>> http://wiki.ctyme.com/index.php/Spam_DNS_Lists
>
> on the 'Joining In' paragraph of your wiki you say "The data you send
> will not violate anyone's provacy. I just need the IP address of the
> server and if it is spam or nonspam", actually the spanish data
> protection agency, based on european directives, considers ip addresses
> as personal data, which means that they cannot be transferred to any
> third party without previous consent of the user attached to the ip.
> The implication of this is that if any spanish company or particular
> sends some ip addresses to be blacklisted to your list it can be sued
> by the user who has been blacklisted and will have to pay a considerable
> amount of money. It would be good that you check if other data
> protection agencies in the european union act in the same way and warn
> your possible users about this. Sounds stupid and is stupid but it's
> real.
>
> In the other hand dns whitelists are more viable here specially if the
> users could request to be whitelisted by themselves, i know there is
> also a dns based withelist of dutch or danish isp's and there is also
> a dns withelist of spanish providers being tested here, maybe it will
> be good for your whitelist to also incorporate this ones.
>
> Just to fix your example, which queries both white and black lists,
> it will be better to not query the blacklist if the host is yellow
> or whitelisted, or better, move the warn's (white/yellow) to the bottom,
> just after all deny's
>
> Also if you want success you will have to provide also examples for
> potsfix, sendmail, mdaemnon, etc ...
>

I'm not asking for the IP address of the end user. It's the IP address
of the host server. This is about tracking the karma of host servers,
not end users.