Re: Website link for 66.172.9.19

[email protected] wrote:

> It should be apparent to your system that I am "replying to this
> address" and your failure to allow this message through violates the
> trust the sender had when he sent it to me. You can do better.

Theoretically it is possible to whitelist a response to a message sent
by one's users. In practice there are lots and lots of complications and
that is probably why the good folks at mail.adhost.com aren't doing it.

DSBL is not in a position to whitelist messages based on the "in-reply-to"
header, because all the DSBL name servers get to see is the sending IP
address, and 66.172.9.19 is know to have a few security problems. See
http://dsbl.org/listing?66.172.9.19 for the full story.

> Mean while, I'll see what I can do from original senders end to help
> you to understand the exasperation the common user has when your
> filters fail to accomodate legitimate email.

DSBL is not a filter. It can be used as part of filtering system (assign
x points if the sending host is listed in DSBL and y points if the
message looks like valid mail, and test if x>y), but that is up to the
administrator of the receiving host - in this case mail.adhost.com - to
decide.