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Spam Resource: DELIVTERMS: Blocklists
- May 19, 2022
- Posted by: Top Deliverability
- Category: Industry News Spam Resource
Al Iverson just released another engaging write-up on Spam Resource:
DELIVTERMS: The weekly series here on Spam Resource that defines deliverability terminology. Today, I’m going to talk about blocklists.What are blocklists? Also called blocking lists, they are lists of IP addresses and/or domain names that are used as spam filters to plug into various email servers and spam filters. The implication is typically that by inclusion of a particular IP address or domain name on that blocklist, that the publisher of that blocklist perceived or believed that the user or owner of that IP address or domain name was engaged in sending spam, or some other unsavory practice.It was common for some folks to call them “blacklists,” though most operators of blocklists avoided that term. Today, most folks refer to them as “blocklists.”Technical terms that typically refer to a blocklist include:RBL (Realtime Blockhole List): Technically refers (only) to the MAPS RBL, one of the first blocklists, but some folks use…
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