[59524] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ISP Whitelist (was Re: NOC contact for he.net)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Anne P. Mitchell, Esq.)
Thu Jul 3 21:28:13 2003
From: "Anne P. Mitchell, Esq." <amitchell@habeas.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2003 18:27:47 -0700
In-reply-to: <3F04D72E.9090009@brightok.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> > 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).
<cough>
Correct, although if people choose to use it as a blocklist, that is
their business. But the only IP addresses on there are those for
which we have in hand email infringing our mark, and we remove
the listing as soon at the infringement stops.
Anne
