Overzealous RBL blocks entire bezeqint range.

[Noam Rathaus]

Ira,

We had a thread exactly about this subject on the 24th of July 2008 :)

And the outcome was nothing, so don't spend too much effort on trying to 
convince people that UCEPROTECT is good or bad, as people either love them 
and will protect them with their life, or hate them wanting them to 
disappear :D (and I am not talking about spammer, but rather people that get 
hurt by their tactics).

On Tuesday 10 February 2009 07:41:38 Ira Abramov wrote:
> Attention Shay O'Hayon and anyone else using UCEPROTECT's RBL: about a
> quarter or a third of Israel's users, those using dialups or mail
> servers on the Bezeqint network are blocked from mailing you.
>
> from their site:
>
>  What means listed at UCEPROTECT-Level 3?
>  GAME OVER. We and our users have seen enough spam and heared all
>  possible excusions why some lazy providers think to be not responsible
>  for what their customers are doing.
>
> apparetly they are blocking all 1180160 IP addresses of the ISP because
> this last week they sent 5789 (0.491 %) spam mails. I wonder if even
> that is not 20% false positives...
>
> As much as I hate spam, I think this RBL is a tiny bit out of sync with
> the universal definition of "sane".
>
> oddly, Shay's server also rejected mail I sent him from Gmail, and
> with even less information on WHY.
>
> I suggest you pick other RBLs that are maintained by anyone over the age
> of 15 at the very least. Email me when you have fixed this.
>
> thanks!
> Ira.


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