dsbl.org gone for good

[Denis Beauchemin]

Matt Hayes a écrit :
> 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
>   
According to their website, il happened sometime after 06/05/2008.  
Anyhow, I still had sendmail check it so I removed the test.

Denis

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