easynet quits

[Ugo Bellavance]

> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : hermit921 [mailto:hermit921 at YAHOO.COM]
> Envoyé : Friday, November 21, 2003 12:31 PM
> À : MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Objet : easynet quits
> 
> 
> I saw the announcement below on spamtools today.  I want to 
> verify that as
> long as my MailScanner.conf line is
> 
> Spam List =
> 
> Then this can't affect me, regardless of what any 
> spamassassin conf file
> contains.  Correct?

I don't think so. Did you disable rbl checks in your spam.assassin.prefs.conf?
If not, you probably have to disable these list.  However, I think the spamassassin team will probably release a new version before the 1st of dec, implementing this change.

Hth

Ugo
> 
> hermit921
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> The easynet blacklists/spamfilters (blackholes.easynet.nl,
> proxies.blackholes.easynet.nl, dynablock.easynet.nl,
> spamdomains.blackholes.easynet.nl, and the easynet spamlists) will be
> discontinued starting Dec 1 2003.
> 
> The zonefiles and associated files will be 'zero-sized' on 
> that day. The
> domains will continue to resolve for a long time, but they 
> will contain
> nothing more than the test records (127.0.0.2 and 
> example.com), so they
> will not catch anything.
> 
> Are you being DDos'ed out of existence?
> - Nope. They probably tried. We didn't even notice it.
> 
> Are you being sued?
> - Nope. They probably tried. We didn't even notice it.
> 
> Are you being threatened?
> - Frankly, we will miss that part.
> 
> [rest deleted]
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