[anti-abuse-wg] Use of RIPE region space by out-of-region users, was RIPE policy

In message <4D777E1A.2010303 at powerweb.de>, 
Frank Gadegast <ripe-anti-spam-wg at powerweb.de> wrote:

>Maybe RIPE should introduce real votes, where 50% are enough to accept 
>drafts.

I was not aware that this is NOT currently the case.

So, um, let me see if a get this... At this point in time, the folks in
Egypt have a more democratic system in place than RIPE does.  Is that
about the size of it?

>Just want to add my opinion here:
>its quite stupid to maintain sender domains in blacklists, because
>sender domains are usually faked anyway.

I can only agree, and that's why I don't ``maintain sender domains in
blacklists''.

If you assumed that I did, then you assumed wrong.

(Sorry.  I don't have time to provide a tutorial about Received: headers,
reverse DNS, and mail filtering just now.  Maybe later.)


Regards,
rfg