ISPs and Spam Filters,
ISIPP has its roots in the email receiving industry. ISIPP's CEO, Anne P. Mitchell,
was the in-house counsel for MAPS and the RBL, prior to founding Habeas in an
effort to help email receivers be able to identify email which was guaranteed
not to be spam and suing spammers who attempted to game that system. After leaving Habeas, Anne founded and joined ISIPP, creating a
neutral place where email receivers and email senders could come together to
deal with Internet public policy and email delivery issues. In fact, SuretyMail
(formerly known as our IADB Email
Senders Accreditation Program) was developed at the request of industry receivers
wanting such a program to be administered by a neutral organization whom they
could trust to understand receivers' needs and to keep the receivers' best
interests at heart. This is why our program is not a whitelisting program per
se, but rather a "here is the factual information you want about this sender" program.
Access to our sender accreditation data is free, and always will be. After all,
one of the primary purposes of our accreditation program is to provide you with
information which makes it easier to make your email acceptance, processing, and
delivery decisions.
In addition, we are happy to create custom data codes, and even complete custom
zones for you at no charge! An example of a custom data code which we have
created for a spam filter is:
"127.3.100.100 - The only email which comes from this IP address is mailing
list email, and that mailing list email is entirely confirmed (double) opt-in"
An example of a custom zone would be one which contains all IP addresses of all
ISIPP accredited senders who score a 30 or above in the IADB2, or one which
contains all IP addresses of all ISIPP accredited senders who use only confirmed
opt-in and who publish an authentication record. Such a zone would be available
for you at yourname-iadb.isipp.com.
Our data is available to you both for direct DNS query, and via zone transfer.
If you are going to be making substantial queries, we ask that you consider
performing a zone transfer, and making your nameserver a secondary slave
to our master zone. While we do not charge you to access our data, it
does cost us to maintain it, and by transferring the zone rather than querying
our zones, you help us to keep that overhead down just a tiny bit.
To access our data, which, again, is always free to you, please fill out this
very short and simple form here.
