dsbl.org gone for good

[Matt Hayes]

Denis Beauchemin wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> According to their web site:
> DSBL is GONE and highly unlikely to return. Please remove it from your
> mail server configuration.
> 
> DSBL was a blocklist specialized in listing open relays and open
> proxies. To put it simply, DSBL listed IP addresses of computers that
> could be tricked into sending spam by anybody. This was a very
> successful strategy. Nowadays open relays and open proxies are rare,
> spammers hardly ever use them any more and no software seems to come
> with an open-by-default policy any more.
> 
> Denis
> 


This is news that is 3 to 4 years old...

-Matt