Open Replacement For MAPS?

quackPOT asks: "Is there anyone with an open database similar to the MAPS DUL list? Now that MAPS charges for service, I either have to pay (which ain't gonna happen) or deal with the spam from direct client connections from crappy dial-ups. One of MAPS excuses for charging was the overhead cost of network bandwidth/etc/whatever. Why not distribute mirrors to other networks to reduce the amount of strain on their servers?"

Comments

Re:A centralized blackhole list is important.

[Zen Sandwich]

In an ideal world, then any admin who's the owner of an open relay would be happy to be notified he's got a problem and work quickly to solve it.

In the real world, many SysAdmin's egos just can't cope with others telling them how to run their system. So, they react by doing stupid things like attacking the blacklist maintainers.

And then if your blacklist maintainer has a similar ego problem instead of shrugging off the insult, they make it worse by blacklisting systems that have done nothing wrong except piss them off.

Admittedly the split-up of the blacklists into 'really open relays', 'maybe open relays' and 'not open relays, but they annoyed me' at least made it possible for those of us who don't buy into the ego trips on either side to at least make some use of the first list.