[anti-abuse-wg] Hold time for abused address space - DNSChanger IP's reallocated

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> I am aware of this but it simply uses another unidentified term
> "spam."
> Using one undefined term to define another undefined term is not a
> standard.

Email spam is universally defined as unsolicited bulk email. It must be 
extremely rare for someone to join an anti-abuse *working* group without 
knowing basic concepts such as this one.

> I think some people
> posting
> large signatures for a 3-word reply is spam so should they be
> blacklisted because I have that opinion?

Yes, I think you should publish a DNSBL consisting of IP addresses from 
which people have sent email messages that contain signatures. That would 
help you realise that a DNSBL only becomes relevant if server administrators 
find it useful and that generalisations such as 'blacklist operators are 
$this-and-that' are gratuitous.

-- 
Thor Kottelin
http://www.anta.net/