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New RFC on DNSBL operational practices

19-Jan-12

The Internet Research Task Force has published informational RFC 6471 on DNSBL operational practices. The acronym DNSBL stands for ‘DNS-based list’, which is more apt than ‘DNS blacklist’ as the DNSBL format can also be used to publish whitelists.

A story about how not to maintain mailing lists

17-Feb-11

Some years ago, I actively traded shares, and at that time, I subscribed to the market information mailing list of a certain bank. As far as I can recall, this went smoothly. However, I recently decided to unsubscribe, and that turned out to be something entirely different.