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Re: Any way to P-T-P Distribute the RBL lists?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andy Smith)
Fri Sep 26 08:32:58 2003
Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2003 13:31:21 +0100
From: Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net>
To: "'nanog@merit.edu'" <nanog@merit.edu>
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On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 09:41:07PM +0200, Sabri Berisha wrote:
> Whatever you come up with, it practically always has a downside:
> spammers can get the whole list as well.
>
> Image an open-proxy-dnsbl being distributed via peer to peer or via
> distributed means as usenet. Spammers would love it as they no longer
> have to scan for themselves, same for open relays.
Most of the large open proxy dnsbls in existence already offer their
zones to essentially anyone via rsync.
http://abuse.easynet.nl/proxies.html skip down to "rsync"
