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  1. 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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  2. 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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