[OT] Easynet.nl DNS Blocklists To Be Discontinued

[jseymour () LinxNet com (Jim Seymour)]

I realize this isn't a "Firewall Wizards" issue, per se, but many of you
may use DNS blocklists in your mail server configs and maybe don't read
news.admin.net-abuse.email or another forum in which you might see
this.

> From: easynet.nl abuse handling dept. <abuse () abuse nl easynet net>
> Newsgroups: news.admin.net-abuse.email,nl.internet.misbruik
> Subject: [easynet.nl] HEADS UP - The easynet blacklists will be discontinued Dec 1 2003
> Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2003 14:03:01 +0100
> Organization: easynet.nl abuse handling dept.
> Message-ID: <q60srv0prtpgqobe9icdlk4birg0t61v77 () thor wirehub nl>
> NNTP-Posting-Host: groaarrr.bengrimm.net
> X-Trace: thor.wirehub.nl 1069419780 10755 195.86.114.90 (21 Nov 2003 13:03:00 GMT)
> X-Complaints-To: abuse () wirehub net
> NNTP-Posting-Date: 21 Nov 2003 13:03:00 GMT
> Xref: sn-us news.admin.net-abuse.email:1132824 nl.internet.misbruik:134770
>
> S.P.Q.N.A.N.A.E atque N.I.M. (tinspqnaneatquenim),
>
> The easynet blacklists/spamfilters (blackholes.easynet.nl,
> proxies.blackholes.easynet.nl, dynablock.easynet.nl,
> spamdomains.blackholes.easynet.nl, and the easynet spamlists) will be
> discontinued starting Dec 1 2003. 
>
> The zonefiles and associated files will be 'zero-sized' on that day. The domains
> will continue to resolve for a long time, but they will contain nothing more
> than the test records (127.0.0.2 and example.com), so they will not catch
> anything.
[snip]
> Goodbye all. It was invigorating, it was fun, it was necessary. Don't give up.
>
> Ben.
>
>
> -- 
> easynet.nl abuse handling dept. -- abuse () abuse nl easynet net
> - blacklists/dnsbls: http://abuse.easynet.nl/spamstats.html -
> - aup: http://www.nl.easynet.net/pub/av/aup/nl (dutch) ------
> - aup: http://www.nl.easynet.net/pub/av/aup/en (english) ----

The full text of Ben's announcement can be seen at:

    http://www.google.com/groups?as_umsgid=q60srv0prtpgqobe9icdlk4birg0t61v77 () thor wirehub nl

(Apologies for the long lines.)

Somebody on the postfix-users mailing list claims to have contacted
Ben directly and received confirmation that the above announcement is
the real deal.

Note: The easynet.nl lists were formerly wirehub.net.  If you've still
got wirehub.net DNSbl entries in your MTA configs: Remove them now.
They've been invalid for *months*.

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