Re: murphy in sbl.spamhaus.org

2004-11-28 Thread Christian Storch
On Sa, 27.11.2004, 03:43, Stephen Gran wrote: ... I guess what I'm trying to say is, I understand your misgivings, beause people implementing most anything can manage to do it in a really stupid, painful and harmful way. That doesn't necessarily mean the idea is unsound. Greylisting is,

Re: murphy in sbl.spamhaus.org

2004-11-28 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sun, 28 Nov 2004, Christian Storch wrote: I disagree here. Well, unless there is nobody with a clue working for the spammers, and given how much money this scum have at their disposal, I find that unlikely... greylisting IS an one-shot tool. But if the majority would use it and they (the

Re: murphy in sbl.spamhaus.org

2004-11-26 Thread Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder
On Friday 26 November 2004 03.34, Stephen Frost wrote: * Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: plug And, of course, postgrey as the very first line of defense. /plug Coupled with the usual checking on HELO (blocking 'localhost' HELOs and my own IP does

Re: murphy in sbl.spamhaus.org

2004-11-26 Thread Christian Storch
On Fr, 26.11.2004, 03:34, Stephen Frost wrote: * Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: plug And, of course, postgrey as the very first line of defense. /plug Coupled with the usual checking on HELO (blocking 'localhost' HELOs and my own IP does wonders!), SMTP

Re: murphy in sbl.spamhaus.org

2004-11-26 Thread Florian Weimer
* Christian Storch: Things which increase the load on the remote mail servers are *bad*. That would include responding with temporary errors unnecessairly and adding unnecessary delays in communication. pipelining by itself isn't necessairly terrible- adding things like 2 minute delays is

Re: murphy in sbl.spamhaus.org

2004-11-26 Thread David Schmitt
On Fri, Nov 26, 2004 at 10:04:38AM +0100, Christian Storch wrote: What about greylisting depending on results of e.g. SA? Only above a limit of scores from SA greylisting would be become active. Use as many RBLs instead of the SA score, but use them not for blocking but for activating

Re: murphy in sbl.spamhaus.org

2004-11-26 Thread George Georgalis
On Fri, Nov 26, 2004 at 10:57:31AM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote: * Christian Storch: Things which increase the load on the remote mail servers are *bad*. That would include responding with temporary errors unnecessairly and adding unnecessary delays in communication. pipelining by itself isn't

Re: murphy in sbl.spamhaus.org

2004-11-26 Thread Mike Gerber
George Georgalis schrieb/wrote/a écrit/escribió: On Fri, Nov 26, 2004 at 10:57:31AM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote: * Christian Storch: What about greylisting depending on results of e.g. SA? Only above a limit of scores from SA greylisting would be become active. This is very impolite because

Re: murphy in sbl.spamhaus.org

2004-11-26 Thread Stephen Frost
* Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Friday 26 November 2004 03.34, Stephen Frost wrote: * Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: plug And, of course, postgrey as the very first line of defense. /plug Coupled with the usual

Re: murphy in sbl.spamhaus.org

2004-11-26 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Stephen Frost said: * Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Friday 26 November 2004 03.34, Stephen Frost wrote: * Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: And, of course, postgrey as the very first line

Re: murphy in sbl.spamhaus.org

2004-11-26 Thread Stephen Frost
* Stephen Gran ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: This one time, at band camp, Stephen Frost said: That's a *terrible* and just plain stupid assumption. Queue size makes a difference to me, both on a machine I run for some friends and in the part-time work that I do for a small ISP (which, hey,

Re: murphy in sbl.spamhaus.org

2004-11-26 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Stephen Frost said: * Stephen Gran ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: A sensible greylisting scheme will auto-whitelist a sending IP after so many whitelisted entries (successful retries) - the only point of greylisting is that we know that the remote end won't retry in

Re: murphy in sbl.spamhaus.org

2004-11-25 Thread Lupe Christoph
Quoting Robert Vangel [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I have been seeing a few (quite a few.. due to the amount of lists I am subscribed to) messages in my postfix log's about murphy.debian.org[146.82.138.6] being blocked due to being present in spamhaus.org's SBL list. Now it is in Spamcop's list:

Re: murphy in sbl.spamhaus.org

2004-11-25 Thread Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder
On Thursday 25 November 2004 10.50, Lupe Christoph wrote: Now it is in Spamcop's list: http://www.spamcop.net/w3m?action=checkblockip=146.82.138.6 spamcop does explicitly not recommend using their RBL for blocking - they know why. That's the downside of a fully automated system. Every

Re: murphy in sbl.spamhaus.org

2004-11-25 Thread Michael Stone
On Thu, Nov 25, 2004 at 10:50:19AM +0100, Lupe Christoph wrote: I have removed bl.spamcop.net from our RBLs. Alas Spamcop does not publish a contact mail address to tell them they have done something Stoopid(tm). [snip] Since Spamcop does not talk to lowly insignificant users, can the listmaster

Re: murphy in sbl.spamhaus.org

2004-11-25 Thread Stephen Frost
* Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: plug And, of course, postgrey as the very first line of defense. /plug Coupled with the usual checking on HELO (blocking 'localhost' HELOs and my own IP does wonders!), SMTP protocol conformance (pipelining), sender

murphy in sbl.spamhaus.org

2004-11-24 Thread Robert Vangel
I have been seeing a few (quite a few.. due to the amount of lists I am subscribed to) messages in my postfix log's about murphy.debian.org[146.82.138.6] being blocked due to being present in spamhaus.org's SBL list. Going to spamhaus and entering 146.82.138.6 shows that it isn't in fact in