Please consider dumping CBL
Posted: Sun Feb 12, 2006 5:32 pm
The recent flood of email-forging win32 virii causes lots and lots of addresses in dynamic ip ranges to get listed and literally every second day, I wake up having inherited a lease from somebody that had been infected and listed.
CBL is meant for blocking incoming email and nothing else. For email users on dynamic ip leases, it's easy to avoid running into a CBL-caused block/rejection by using their ISP's designated email server to send mail - unfortunately ISPs do not commonly provide IRC bouncers to allow the same no-brainer way of avoiding issues with blocklists when connecting to EFnet.
To whom it may concern: Please consider to stop using CBL for autobanning IP addresses from EFnet servers. Thanks.
edit: Or at least don't auto k-line for 24 hours - that's incidentally about the same time the average dynamic IP lease lasts.
CBL is meant for blocking incoming email and nothing else. For email users on dynamic ip leases, it's easy to avoid running into a CBL-caused block/rejection by using their ISP's designated email server to send mail - unfortunately ISPs do not commonly provide IRC bouncers to allow the same no-brainer way of avoiding issues with blocklists when connecting to EFnet.
To whom it may concern: Please consider to stop using CBL for autobanning IP addresses from EFnet servers. Thanks.
edit: Or at least don't auto k-line for 24 hours - that's incidentally about the same time the average dynamic IP lease lasts.