Philip Jacob

Is MAPS not dead yet?

· Philip Jacob

Note to archeologists and readers: this was written a long time ago and is maintained simply for historical reasons.

A story posted on Slashdot today clearly highlights some of the problems with DNS-based blacklists that I outlined in my Moving Beyond RBLs paper in 2003.

Today’s post on /. clearly shows why blacklists are inherently biased against small businesses and other entities which have a small proportional value in the network.