Tara asks: “What if someone used MT-blacklist in order to blacklist non-spammers?” I suspect there’s a vetting process, but I don’t know how this works.
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Tara asks: “What if someone used MT-blacklist in order to blacklist non-spammers?” I suspect there’s a vetting process, but I don’t know how this works.
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There’s really no problem with this. Each installation of MT-Blacklist uses its own private blacklist, although most users import the public list from the master list managed by Jay Allen. It’s trivial to add non-spam patterns to a weblog’s private blacklist, which I don’t see as a problem.
/Guan
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Well…. it CAN be a problem.
Several months back I was doing an ego search. I realized some dickhead spammer had blog-spammed many people. The twist was in the ”
So ‘karavshin.org’ wound up on the blacklist.
I tried to send out “sorry! sorry! but!” emails to at least many of the victims and I talked to Jay Allen, the MT-Blacklist creator.
I think eventually he removed me from the list. Fortunately the project is still small enough that corrective action like that is possible.
The irony that I too was using MT-Blacklist is an amusing bounds test for it! (Can I publish to my own site?!)
Speaking of false positives, I get really sick of having my outgoing mail blocked because the latest IP I inherited from my DSL provider is blocked on any of a number of abuse lists because the previous owner had a virus, or an open relay.
At least the list today, http://cbl.abuseat.org, has a way to automatically drop yourself from the list after an hour or so. As well, it has an time-based decay, where the ip address eventually falls back off the list.
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