The DNSBL TQMCUBE was created by David Cary Hart sometime in 2004 or 2005. The front page of the website www.tqmcube.com was modified to specifically become the homepage of the TQM blacklist in January of 2006.
Various sources and my own investigation show that the website seems to be running on autopilot with nobody at the helm.
A postmaster at a large ISP contacted me and indicated that he had received no response to DNSBL remove requests submitted to TQM. Those requests were submitted on March 27th, and it is now June 30th that I write this article.
Other data points showing that the list appears to be unmanned and likely abandoned:
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The list’s website has a “last update” date of March 11, 2007.
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The last known response received in reply to a blacklist remove request seems to have been in February, 2007.
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I contacted David Cary Hart via email to the address on his domain registration on June 20th, 2007, and have not received a reply.
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I contacted the abuse desk of his ISP (Fortress ITX) and asked them to confirm that he was alive. This was on June 24th. I received a ticket number but no other response.
The DNSBL’s experimental world zone has not been operational since December, 2006. -
The last known sighting of Mr. Hart online appears to be here, from April 2007.
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This newsgroup posting from Colin Leroy on June 14, 2007 indicates that Colin had last seen email from Mr. Hart back in December, 2006. The email was a message posted to a mailing list that they both participate in.
- Others have indicated to me that they have called the telephone number in the TQMCUBE domain registration, and that the voice mail box associated with this phone number is full, no longer accepting new messages.
This thread in the news.admin.net-abuse.email newsgroup wondering why the list’s administrators are non-responsive is typical of the communication I’ve come across during my investigation. I am receiving numerous reports of issues with listings going unresolved. Additionally, when checked against my personal spamtrap data (8000+ spams/day) I am seeing the effectiveness of this blacklist trending downward over the past few weeks.
Keep all of this in mind, I do not think it is wise to use the TQMCUBE blacklist.
I will update this page as more information becomes available.
Read More… (From Al Iverson’s DNSBL Resource)
