Blacklist organization trends?

**Andes_Help** · 06-11-2009

Are Internet Blacklist Organizations getting set to become the newest 'Robber Barons' on the Internet?

After getting blacklisted by backscatter.org I tried to find out what is required to become blacklisted and what is required to get unlisted.

What I found was a web page which said:

There should be no need to contact us:

We have heard all possible excusions why people think they can not stop their systems backscatter or doing sender callouts.
If you have chosen to be a lazy or selfish netcitizen letting your system backscatter or doing sender callouts you perfectly match listingcriterias.
Your recipients and we are tired of all the fake bounces, misdirected autoresponders and verify calls wasting our resources, and therfore you got blocked.

OUR BLOCKLIST - OUR RULES. NO ONE GETS A FREE RIDE HERE.

We don't make exceptions to our list, so it is futile and a waste of your time to contact us and ask for delisting.

Unless, you are willing to pay them 50 Euros to be removed.

From reading other forums, some are saying that they are constantly being placed on the backscatter blacklist and can't find a way to stop from being listed.

One such forum is DNStuff.com. Thread IP:

Sounds like blackmail to me.

Any Thoughts?

**Azzan** · 06-11-2009

The idea behind whitelisting is to move to a computer management model where the software on the PC is controlled. The FTC summit is the first serious evaluation of blacklists undertaken by the federal government, even though the technique has been the target of criticism for frequently blocking mail that is not spam. So rather than being a wide-open platform where any software can be launched by a user or another piece of software, a whitelist-based security model only allows the stuff you want to run. A particularly controversial "guilt-by-association" approach employed by some list operators places an entire ISP or hosting service on a blacklist merely because one of its users is a spammer. nd often that includes non-malicious software you don’t own, want, or need.