The blacklist companies are kind of annoying. I’ve been hit by a range blacklist. It’s generally temporary and annoying to opt out of. I get why they exist thou

The blacklist companies are kind of annoying. I’ve been hit by a range blacklist. It’s generally temporary and annoying to opt out of. I get why they exist though. There are spammers that will register hundreds, thousands of domains behind anonymous registrars from the Caymans and try to run a phishing scam by spoofing their domains, etc. You can report abuse to the registrar but… it’s a lot of work to get through each of 50917.com, 643801.com, etc for each offence. Much easier to setup spamassassin to report to a blacklist. It causes splash damage to legit, indie operators… but aside from engineering a completely new protocol and migrating everyone in the world over to it, blacklisting is not great but it’s easier than all that. I’d love to find a way to make it better and get back at these scammers much the same way folks are figuring out how to report and deter phone scammers.