{"draft":"draft-irtf-asrg-bcp-blacklists-10","doc_id":"RFC6471","title":"Overview of Best Email DNS-Based List (DNSBL) Operational Practices","authors":["C. Lewis","M. Sergeant"],"format":["ASCII","HTML"],"page_count":"21","pub_status":"INFORMATIONAL","status":"INFORMATIONAL","source":"IRTF","abstract":"The rise of spam and other anti-social behavior on the Internet has\r\nled to the creation of shared DNS-based lists (DNSBLs) of IP\r\naddresses or domain names intended to help guide email filtering.\r\nThis memo summarizes guidelines of accepted best practice for the\r\nmanagement of public DNSBLs by their operators as well as for the\r\nproper use of such lists by mail server administrators (DNSBL users),\r\nand it provides useful background for both parties.  It is not\r\nintended to advise on the utility or efficacy of particular DNSBLs or\r\nthe DNSBL concept in general, nor to assist end users with questions\r\nabout spam.  This document is not an Internet Standards Track \r\nspecification; it is published for informational purposes.","pub_date":"January 2012","keywords":["DNSBL policy"],"obsoletes":[],"obsoleted_by":[],"updates":[],"updated_by":[],"see_also":[],"doi":"10.17487\/RFC6471","errata_url":null}