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Re: Go daddy mail services admin

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Seth Mattinen)
Wed Oct 1 12:48:19 2008

Date: Wed, 01 Oct 2008 09:48:09 -0700
From: Seth Mattinen <sethm@rollernet.us>
To: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.1.999.0810011026240.6773@nog.angryox.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org

Peter Beckman wrote:
> On Wed, 1 Oct 2008, Jeff Kinz wrote:
> 
>> GoDaddy has an unusual policy of rejecting any email that mentions
>> anything that resolves to an IP address on the PBL list
> 
>  Why doesn't someone at Spamhaus block godaddy requests for the PBL, until
>  they get their act together?  If they are using the PBL inappropriately,
>  or outside the terms and conditions set forth by Spamhaus fur use of the
>  PBL, then Spamhaus has full control here.
> 
>  I'm sure goDaddy is paying Spamhaus for access to the PBL, so it might be
>  problematic, but I think Spamhaus should have a policy that if someone is
>  misusing the PBL, the PBL will be blocked until the PBL is being properly
>  implemented.
> 
>  Get it together, Spamhaus, help us out.
> 


If I use the PBL (or any other list) to stupidly block on my own
customers, why should spamhaus care? I'm sure they have better things to
do that babysit people who may or not be using it inappropriately (for
whoever decides to define "inappropriate").

~Seth


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