Re: [Devil-Linux-discuss] OT: Spam Blacklists

[Bruce S. <bw...@ar...>]

> Apparently this list has been using a bogus blacklist.
> My mail to the list has been silently disappearing into a blackhole
> for the past week or so.
> 
> Finally I discovered 
> http://www.mxtoolbox.com/blacklists.aspx?AG=GBL&gclid=CI7gntKM1YgCFQR8VAod9FJsZg
> 
> It told I was on the http://www.moensted.dk/spam/no-more-funn/
> blacklist because netblk-q0228-65-125-188-0 is home to spammers.
> 
> This makes no sense.  My ip 209.181.116.109 is not even in that
> netblock!
> 
> Fortunately the automated whitelist tool promptly removed me from the
> blacklist.  So you should see this email.
> 
> Or maybe I have to wait a while longer for your dns cache to expire.
> 
> Arghhhhhh!
> 
> Please discontinue using this buggy blacklist!

There are a lot of problems with blacklists in general, and I would love
to discontinue using it, but it's out of our control.

Sourceforge hosts our mailing lists.  I recommend you complain to
sourceforge.  Let us know their response.

 - BS