[Mimedefang] roaringpenguin.com is listed in rfc-ignorant

Jan Pieter Cornet johnpc at xs4all.nl
Wed Sep 29 08:11:41 EDT 2004


On Wed, Sep 29, 2004 at 03:48:21AM -0700, Kenneth Porter wrote:
> >roaringpenguin.com (No Longer Listed) [approved by dredd, removed by
> >dredd]
> 
> I still see a listing:
> 
> <http://www.rfc-ignorant.org/tools/lookup.php?domain=roaringpenguin.com&full=1>
> 
> An earlier one was removed.

And it looks like it's now a permanent listing. See:

http://www.rfc-ignorant.org/tools/detail.php?domain=roaringpenguin.com&submitted=1096422688&table=postmaster

IMHO, this just shows we did the right thing when we removed rfc-ignorant
from our user-selectable list of DNSBLs two years ago :). Being too
zealous is not a good way for blacklist operators to stop spam, admins
will simply stop using the list. False positives count much more than
false negatives...

-- 
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$_[2]}->(map{/p|f/i+/f/i}split//,$&)+97):qw(m p f)[map{((ord$&)%32-1)/$_%3}(9,
3,1)]),5,1)='`'lt$&;$f.eig;                                # Jan-Pieter Cornet



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