14 pointsby goldenmemberan hour ago3 comments
  • ozim2 minutes ago
    Sounds like this should go via Orange they have means to slap UCEPROTECT on the wrist. It also looks like it would be in Orange business to have proper spam lists not ones like that.
  • JohnMakin13 minutes ago
    DigitalOcean has been on their list for a while, they say something like “if you don’t want to be flagged as spam, dont host on a site that hosts spammers” which is pretty ridiculous given every cloud platform does
    • mmh00003 minutes ago
      It’s not ridiculous.

      Hosting providers should be good citizens of the network and immediately terminate spammer accounts. This used to be standard practice until about 2015. When suddenly management decided it’s more profitable host spammers than not.

      I think this is a great policy decision by uceprotect.

  • someonebaggy17 minutes ago
    All of the spam blocklists are like this.

    At one time quite recently, Cloudflare was on Spamhaus's "Don't Route Or Peer" list. Imagine where the world would be if anyone gave a shit about that list.

    But if an entire ISP is blocking you based on UCEPROTECT, which is designed for email spam filters - are you sure? An ISP that blocked all of DO would get so many complaints and be open to so much legal liability. Usually these are only used for email filtering.

    • goldenmembera few seconds ago
      I disagree. Normally you can reach out to request delisting, and it's free.

      As I explained, Orange's security filter seems to automatically block requests at the DNS level if your website's domain resolves to an IP listed on UCEPROTECT Level 3. In this case, that appears to be the entire DigitalOcean ASN.