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Maintaining a Publicly Available Blacklist - Mechanisms and Principles

badger.foo writes "When you publicly assert that somebody sent spam, you need to ensure that your data is accurate. Your process needs to be simple and verifiable, and to compensate for any errors, you want your process to be transparent to the public with clear points of contact and line of responsibility. Here are some pointers from the operator of the bsdly.net greytrap-based blacklist."

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  1. Re:Greylist instead by 1s44c · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If you ran an open relay you were on the right end of a blacklisting.

  2. Re:Greylist instead by jhoegl · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Email is not a priority notice system.
    If it is so urgent, pick up the phone.