[lug] OT: Openlist, the mailing list blackhole service

[Peter Hutnick]

Matt Clauson wrote:

> For those of you who aren't members of the CO-SAGE list, there's been a 
> small thread on there regarding Openlist, which purports to be an "open 
> email list" blackhole service.  (Open being that the lists don't 
> confirm subscriptions).  As a public interest, I've posted the exchange 
> between Kirk Rafferty (one of the CO-SAGE moderators) and Openlist on 
> my weblog:
> 
> http://webdragon.dotorg.org/~mec/index.php?wl_mode=more&wl_eid=11
> 
> You might want to read this -- the Openlist people seem to be so dense 
> it's funny.  They have their hearts in the right place, but they don't 
> seem to grasp how their system can be abused.


After reading the above link, it would seem that the easy answer is to 
configure your MTA to blackhole all mail TO the robot, and ask them to 
retest.

IOW, if you refuse to transmit mail to their domain you'll never get 
blacklisted :-)

-Peter