On Mon, 2005-02-14 at 17:12 +0000, Paul Howarth wrote:
That's right, I don't accept mail from random addresses in domains that don't have working postmaster addresses. If someone in that domain is causing an issue, who could I report it to? I would ask you to contact your ISP and ask them to fix this RFC non-compliance in their mail system, or, if it's already fixed (the listing shown at http://www.rfc-ignorant.org/tools/lookup.php?domain=verizon.net indicates a "disk full" error dating back to 2002), to remove their listing from rfc-ignorant.org.
FWIW, it works now. I've never had much luck with RHSBLs. Jim Seymour has written "RFCI's listing criteria takes RFC requirements far too literally, in my opinion, and, some argue, interprets them incorrectly."
Well, RFCI is more about making political statements about standards-adherence than blocking spam, but, with the addition of a suitable whitelist, I find it does actually keep out a fair bit of spam because spammers aren't too good at being standards-compliant. However, this is more of a beneficial side-effect than a primary reason for using it.
As with any DNSBL, anyone contemplating using it should look carefully at the listing/de-listing policies for themselves first.
Cases of debatable interpretation (e.g. the roaringpenguin issue) are best brought up on the RFCI list where they can be discussed. If consensus is that interpretation is wrong, it gets changed.
Paul.
