[59523] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ISP Whitelist (was Re: NOC contact for he.net)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jack Bates)
Thu Jul 3 21:25:33 2003
Date: Thu, 03 Jul 2003 20:23:58 -0500
From: Jack Bates <jbates@brightok.net>
To: "Anne P. Mitchell, Esq." <amitchell@habeas.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <3F046E4B.11398.2184787@localhost>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Anne P. Mitchell, Esq. wrote:
>
> That query configuration in SpamAssassin was incorrect, and has been fixed
> in 2.60. While I apologize that it caused you an inconvenience, it was in fact
> set up like that without our knowledge. It was querying the HIL even if
> there were no Habeas headers present in the inbound email in question, so it
> was querying the HIL for every single piece of email going through SA.
In other words, the HIL is designed to only counteract the Mark, and not
operate as a bl(a|o)cklist. I've seen a lot of confusion concerning
people's perceptions on that (read the iCop interview. haha).
-Jack
