[dnswl-users] List maintenance strategies...

[Alessandro Vesely <vesely@xxxxxxx>]

Hi all,
I recently registered at DNSWL, and am curious how it works.

I found very little notices about it, e.g. when has it been founded, 
who pays, why it's not on wikipedia, and similar amenities...

I read in http://www.dnswl.org/background
> it is believed that abusive activities will cease upon reasonably short notice to the appropriate abuse contact

I don't think DNSWL receives abuse reports in some semi-automated 
manner. While larger ESPs have some way to set up feedback loops, no 
practice is currently standardized for that, AFAIK. Not even the ARF 
itself.

A fair practice could be for users so send abuse reports to their ESPs 
who, in turn, could forward them to DNSWL if the sender was 
registered. DNSWL could take note and forward that report to the 
registered sender's feedback loop contact. This could be largely 
automated (except for the user submitting the first report) and 
result, e.g., in automatically banning naughty users for a time 
proportional to the numbers of complaints. Just an idea. However, a 
Thunderbird extension for submitting ARF messages exists, IIRC.

Thanks and greetings from Milan to all
Ale