[Oberon] Blacklisting

[Nemo]

On 30 November 2015 at 10:59, Peter Easthope <petereasthope at gmail.com> wrote:
> This is new.
> <oberon at lists.inf.ethz.ch>: host phil3.ethz.ch[129.132.183.132] said: 550
>     192.185.51.172 blacklisted at zen.dnsbl.ethz.ch 127.0.0.4 (in reply to
> RCPT TO command)
>
> Not surprising that 192.185.51.172, a big commercial server, might issue
> some rubbish.
> Is blacklisting automated?  A human decision?

Many of these sites have web-entry forms for reporting and work on a
"guilty until shown otherwise" principle.  A friend of mine had his
ISP site black-listed because a customer of his customer had a dispute
and black-listed the entire site.

N.

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