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by tquai
4829 days ago
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Once you got black-listed getting removed wasn't always an easy process no matter how quickly you tried fix whatever caused it. I took a job in the year 2000, at a company with 3000 email users, listed by Spamhaus. First thing I did was close the open relay they were running. The listing was promptly removed, and the mail queue was back to normal within only a few days. I'm skeptical of your claim. I've never seen a confirmed case of Spamhaus aggression, but I've seen a lot that were disproven, and even more that sound like they were written by miscreants. Like the kind who would advocate DDoS attacks cough. |
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Open relays were at the time manageable, even the ones that suddenly appeared when someone installed an old OS-version, as were the process for getting removed from the blacklists due to open relays.
Once you had one a computer lab workstation hacked and used for spamming - not so easy to get whiteliested anymore.
The university had a class B-network, trying to get the staffs subnet whitelisted while keeping the computer-labs blacklisted was apparently not possible according to the spam clearing houses. Blocking port 25 for outgoing traffic not possible to check from the outside and didn't help.
I can understand that organizations like spamhaus are overworked don't have the resources to handle every non-standard case on the internet as quickly as the blocked ip-range would like, but the replies we got were truly unhelpful.
The fact that someone bothered to register the domain stophaus.com seems to indicate that my experiences isn't uniqueue.