Thanks for the reply.
I would, however retort that if the contact info is faulty, and a
message simply isn't delivered (hopefully you'll get a notification of
an invalid address,) this could count as a further strike against a
domain.
However, if the contact information is good, and a message is properly
received, it does help speed along the process. We keep both info@shiftfocus.ca
and abuse@shiftfocus.ca so that we can be notified of any trouble.
The hope was that we might know about the trouble and take action
before something like this occurs.
For example, until today we didn't know we were somehow (and
mistakenly) on a blacklist. How long were we on the blacklist? It
would certainly explain some odd behaviour of sent messages over the
last couple of months.
Having completed another "lookup," no additional information is
offered. We can't face our accuser so to speak or see how, why or when
we were added in any detail.
Back to my original point, it seems to me the overhead for the simple
e-mail notification would be quite low and the net effect would be
some increased feeling of goodwill from those who might suffer from
false positives. The increased level of openness could only help
further the cause.
I am not saying this to criticise the effort, far from it. I still
applaud the gargantuan and nearly impossible effort of keeping the
streets "clean." At the same time, as an outsider who is suffering a
little from the cleaning, these are my thoughts. They remain opinion
and should be considered such.
I do wish you all the best,
Petros Kolyvas
--
ShiftFocus Media
for Arts and Education
Phone: 514.667-9778 ext. 231
Fax: 866.850.5451
42 Milner Street
Montreal, QC, H4X 2H5
On 2-Jul-09, at 2:13 PM, SURBL Role wrote:
> Thanks for a good suggestion and for your kind words, but 99.99+% of
> the sites on SURBL lists likely have false contact information or are
> hosted on compromised computers, so it's often not feasible to contact
> them.
>
> Probably the best approach is to follow the removal procedure at:
>
>
http://www.surbl.org/lookup/
>
> as you're doing.
>
>
>
> On 7/2/09, Petros Kolyvas
pk@shiftfocus.ca wrote:
>> Dear All,
>>
>> I was notified today via an error message from a mail server that a
>> domain/URL in the e-mail was on a blacklist somewhere. I took the
>> time
>> to check and sure enough our own domain is on that list with the note
>> PH.
>>
>> The problem is that our domain is hosted on a shared web host from
>> what I believe to be a fairly reputable web host here in Montreal
>> (iWeb.com.) We have no ability to control or monitor the servers at a
>> level that would allow us to work on, modify, patch, or make any low-
>> level changes that requested in the "Removal Request."
>>
>> More importantly is why a domain isn't notified upon being
>> blacklisted? (Via the info@... or abuse@.... mailboxes) I can
>> understand the need for immediately blacklisting troublesome domains;
>> with that I have no qualms. However it seems that, in the hope of
>> weeding out false positives like our own, at least a note that the
>> domain is being added to the blacklist would help in some kind of
>> active response - instead of the reactive one where we start
>> receiving
>> cryptic messages from clients' servers indicating something is amiss.
>>
>> That being said, thanks for all your hard work to keep this giant and
>> messy infrastructure as clean as humanly possible.
>>
>> Be well,
>> Petros Kolyvas
>>
>> --
>> ShiftFocus Media
>> for Arts and Education
>>
>> Phone: 514.667-9778 ext. 231
>> Fax: 866.850.5451
>>
>> 42 Milner Street
>> Montreal, QC, H4X 2H5
>>
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