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Re: SORBS Contact
From: Peter Corlett <abuse () cabal org uk>
Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2006 10:04:48 +0100
On 10 Aug 2006, at 00:06, Matthew Sullivan wrote:
[...] This is also why I took the time to create:http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-msullivan-dnsop-generic- naming-schemes-00.txt
Why is this information being encoded into the regular PTR records that already have another purpose, thus reducing its usefulness? It seems the only purpose is as a bandaid over dumb SORBS policy.
Create a new SPF-like record if you want *additional* information in DNS. Don't clobber an existing service.
There are things in the works that will enable the most complained about aspects of SORBS to be fixed and to go away permanently... The only thing that is delaying it is developer time... So I will say this publicly - those that want to see drastic changes @ SORBS that are, or have access to a perl coder with SQL knowledge, and is able to spend 20-40 hours of pure coding time writing a user interface for user permissions & roles in Perl contact me off list as the user interface is the only thing that is holding up moving to the beta stage of the SORBS2 database.
I have the skills and time, but zero inclination to support SORBS. In fact, I think I'll hack my mostly-default SpamAssassin configuration to ignore SORBS. Grepping mailboxes for the SA tag suggests that SORBS makes no difference in detecting spam, and it tags a number of legitimate correspondents, including, it appears, Spamcop at 204.15.82.27. (I'm going by the tags SA added to the message since I can't get past the CAPTCHA on your website to query that address.)
Blacklisting competitors is a low and dirty trick.
Current thread:
- Re: SORBS Contact, (continued)
- Re: SORBS Contact Matthew Sullivan (Aug 09)
- Message not available
- Re: SORBS Contact Matthew Sullivan (Aug 09)
- Re: SORBS Contact william(at)elan.net (Aug 10)
- Re: SORBS Contact Robert E . Seastrom (Aug 10)
- rDNS naming conventions (was: Re: SORBS Contact) Steven Champeon (Aug 10)
- Re: rDNS naming conventions (was: Re: SORBS Contact) Suresh Ramasubramanian (Aug 10)
- Re: rDNS naming conventions (was: Re: SORBS Contact) Steven Champeon (Aug 10)
- Re: rDNS naming conventions (was: Re: SORBS Contact) Nicholas Suan (Aug 10)
- Re: rDNS naming conventions (was: Re: SORBS Contact) bmanning (Aug 10)
- Re: rDNS naming conventions (was: Re: SORBS Contact) Edward Lewis (Aug 10)
- Re: SORBS Contact Peter Corlett (Aug 10)
- Re: SORBS Contact Andrew D Kirch (Aug 11)
- Re: SORBS Contact Mark Andrews (Aug 09)
- Re: SORBS Contact Matthew Sullivan (Aug 09)
- Re: SORBS Contact Mark Andrews (Aug 09)
- Re: SORBS Contact Matthew Sullivan (Aug 09)
- Re: SORBS Contact Noel (Aug 10)
- Re: SORBS Contact Joe Maimon (Aug 10)
- RE: SORBS Contact David Schwartz (Aug 13)