[AusNOG] [SHAME] spamrats.com

[Julian DeMarchi]

On 01/10/2013 01:17 PM, Jacob Bisby wrote:
> I've seen a few lists employ similar tactics - as annoying as it is, in the end it's our responsibility to keep things like PTR and SPF records relevant and up-to-date to aid anti-spam efforts. 

You are correct. But my issue is on blocking a whole /24. If they didn't
block the whole /24 I wouldn't care and fix the issue without making
this noise.

> A lot of providers make auto-generated PTR's, I've seen a spamlist (can't remember the name for the life of me now) that sometimes doesn't like this either and will blacklist you for the PTR record not matching the MX record.

This is for a colo/client range. I won't do that to my customers. The
mail server in question does and has from the start have a valid PTR.

> I write it off as one of the many responsibilities running mail services seems to entail these days :-).

I would too, but not in the case. Sorry. A /24 is over the top in my
books. It wasn't even listed as sending spam on their site.

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--julian