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At work we have recently started testing a web-based trading platform for swaps. After pointing the browser to the respective URL you enter the relevant data (effective date, notional, currency, &c) and klick on "request for quote". The system will take a little time to process the data and price the swap; and you have about 7 seconds to accept (and immediately enter a contract) or reject the quote by klicking on the respective button on the popup.

I have often used his platform to get tradeable price-*indications* until recently when I had the chance to take a look at the inner workings. We had some technical problem with the systems and contacted the support. They passed us on to the trader, a person who has to _manually_ release any quote before it is sent out. D'oh!

Looks like I was wrong, the whole *.vlinux.de is blacklisted, but lookup by IP on rfc-ignorant.org's web interface does not work for this kind of block.

I am pretty sure this cluelessness at its best:
m26s25:~# swaks -s spam-is-theft.sput.nl. -f'<>' -t rob@sput.nl -q rcpt
[...]
-> RCPT TO:<rob@sput.nl>
<** 550 Host name is listed in abuse.rfc-ignorant.org. Get yourself another ISP.
According to the web interface the host 83.151.30.59 is definitely not listed on abuse.rfc-ignorant.org.

Anyway, should you read this, the answer to your question is: It has been reported before bug 326160 and is suppposed to be documented (although I fail to parse right now, due to being slightly tired) perhaps unknown_in_list should be added to log_selector.

Just finished reading: Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice which was a pleasure to me.