RE: PDL anti-spam blacklist

From: Brian Taylor <drak3(at)attbi.com>
Date: Thu Jan 02 2003 - 23:07:24 EST

My old company made it onto a similar blackhole list. One of the wannabe RBL mirrors. Reason? Open relays. Fixed it, reported to em and were removed in a matter of days. YMMV, however. I feel sorry for the blokes who end up on it due to their ISP. Not a lot one can do about that, particularly if they have a mom & pop ISP like those in more rural areas.

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Brian Taylor
johnthedwarf@ziplip.com

"Sure you can get HIV from a mosquito -- if you have unprotected sex with one!"

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-----Original Message-----
From: John Paul [mailto:jpaul@kormanmarketing.com] Sent: Tuesday, December 31, 2002 2:08 PM To: incidents@securityfocus.com
Subject: PDL anti-spam blacklist

First off, I am not a spammer, nor do I sympathize with spammers or spam. I am not dial up, nor dynamic IP'd, yet on their blacklist.

I take Internet security very seriously.

My personal IP range is blacklisted by these guys for some reason. Looks like the PDL is somehow "enforcing" my ISP's TOS and/or AUP, go figure...

#1 Has anyone else run into this "service"?
#2 Has anyone successfully had themselves removed from the list? If so, was
the process like bad dental work?

http://www.pan-am.ca/pdl/

Please understand I have not taken the time to verify the entire list as dial-up vs. not dial-up, I have better things to do than check the PDL's work.

This is not intended to be the start of yet another un-ending philosophical debate on spam blockage.

Thanks,

John

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This list is provided by the SecurityFocus ARIS analyzer service. For more information on this free incident handling, management and tracking system please see: http://aris.securityfocus.com Received on Fri Jan 3 11:57:30 2003