[Asrg] draft-irtf-asrg-bcp-blacklists-01 March 24, 2008

John Levine asrg at johnlevine.com
Fri Apr 4 18:25:44 PDT 2008


>   A DNSBL MUST specify the scope of the listing and disclose whether
>   it may include an IP address which has not been identified as the
>   source of abusive email.

That's not quite it.  Most of the addresses in the Spamhaus PBL have
never sent spam, after all.

Personally, I think that collateral damage is a reasonable term, and
all of the dnsbls don't block mail weasel wording is counterproductive,
since we're talking about policy, not code.

R's,
John




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