--On 17 October 2006 16:42:50 +0200 Zbigniew Szalbot
<zbyszek@???> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Tue, 17 Oct 2006, UCEPROTECT-Network Blacklistmaster of the day wrote:
>
>> As we explained on our website, we consider callouts abusive, because
>> they can make your system part of an ddos against others.
>
> That's in theory but I have my system setup in such a way that I do not
> use callouts. However, you are blocking my server lists.lc-words.com:
>
> TXT= "Net 83.19.0.0/16 is Level 3 listed at UCEPROTECT-Network. See
> http://www.uceprotect.net/en/index.php?m=7&s=8"
To be fair, they do recommend that users don't block at level 3.
I still think their listing criteria are dumb. The seem to use three
techniques:
1. People who bounce viruses with warning messages (actually, that's fine).
2. People who use SRS. I'd like to use it for local people that ask to get
email forwarded from their local (sussex.ac.uk) address to a personal
address. I don't see how SRS can harm anyone when I do this. Perhaps such
email would never hit their honeypots, though.
3. People using sender verification callouts. They seem to think it's as
bad as sending email, but my sender verification callouts don't fill
mailboxes or server queues. And, they do stop lots of spam.
> Problem is my server is 83.19.156.210 so you are blocking me and a whole
> IP range and it has NOTHING to do with callouts, sir.
>
> We have never sent a single spam and yet we have been blocked. Can you
> explain? Maybe others in the *.0.0/16 IP range have sent millions of spam
> emails, but we have not.
>
> In order to keep in touch with customers who requested information from
> us I daily have to deal with people like you, people blocking others
> without putting any thought into what you are doing.
>
> Regards,
>
> --
> Zbigniew Szalbot
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Ian Eiloart
IT Services, University of Sussex
