Lawsuit threat against RBL users

Thu Nov 19 16:49:20 UTC 1998

keric at cyberiron.com (Eric Anderson) writes:

> Not to mention being the ultimate DoS: sending out loads of useless
> SPAM that appears to come from a competitor, getting them kicked off
> their Net.

The RBL team has occasionally received and followed up on some spam,
traced it back through multiple providers, only to discover that it
was forged by a somebody's competitor.  We blackholed the real source
in those cases, not the forged source.  The telephone is a marvelous
tool for figuring out what really happened, and our use of the phone
is one of the things that makes the RBL so difficult to maintain.
-- 
Paul Vixie <paul at vix.com>