Re: OT: fighting rbl's

[Thomas Zehetbauer]

On Die, 2004-11-30 at 08:22 +0000, Paul Howarth wrote:
> What's your IP address and which DNSBLs (RBL is a trademark of MAPS LLC)
> are you referring to?

In fact it _is_ MAPS LLC.
> > Launch wget with an invalid URL once per second to put my removal
> > request in their httpd log?
>
> That's abusive; don't do it.

I consider it abusive to block my legitimate mail from getting through,
so what.
> > Reciprocally blocking their domain from delivering here?
>
> That's fine: your mail server, your rules. However, if they did
> eventually make a query regarding your removal request, you probably
> wouldn't want to reject it.

Of course, but it seems that they are ignoring my removal request
anyway.

Tom