UCEPROTECTL3 is so dumb

1. My specific IP, idiomdrottning.org, is green because it doesn’t send spam email.
2. Even nearby IPs happen to be green which yay awesome but that’s not something I can affect either way.
3. But since Akamai bought Linode and on the Akamai network as a whole there are spammers, I’ve been blocklisted on the “level three” list which has lead to some emails not getting through.

And on that page, they write:

Your IP 74.207.231.133 was NOT part of abusive action, but you are the one that has freely chosen your provider.
By tolerating or ignoring that your provider doesn’t care about abusers you are indirectly also supporting the global spam with your money.
Seen from this point of view, you really shouldn’t wonder about the consequences.

Even setting aside that I didn’t exactly freely chose for Linode to get bought by Akamai, this UCEPROTECTL3 list is contributing to ESP oligarchy, pushing us towards the gmail-only hellscape by blocking independent (fully DMARC’d up) postfix servers.

Not sure how me “tolerating” being on Linode is more immoral than cutting off contact ties between friends and fam.

“you really shouldn’t wonder about the consequences.” 🤬

While in fact UCEPROTECT-Level 3 is nothing than pure mathematics based on the Impacts from Level 1, one could best describe UCEPROTECT-Level 3 as a boycottlist.

Probably better known as an extortion scam cash cow because they coax people to pay to be exempted from this boycott:

We never make exceptions. Requests are futile. Only your provider can fix this problem.
Anyway our system respects IP’s which are registered at ips.whitelisted.org, these are excluded from Level 3.

Don’t use this blocklist in your spam filters.

Mx Tool Box is part of why there are so many freakouts around this online, because people go there to troubleshoot and one of the things they see is this scam blacklist. Even though there might be some other issue like reverse DNS. In reality most people don’t use the fake UCEPROTECT block list anyway. So do not pay; it’s more likely there’s something else wrong with the email.