FYI... ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, December 23, 2003 8:23 AM Subject: NJABL changes for contributors
> It's recently come to my attention that some contributing sites may be > running content filtering software (i.e. SpamAsssassin) on servers setup > as DNS query contributors. Since recent versions of SpamAsssassin check > IPs in more than just the last Received: header line against > dnsbl.njabl.org, this was causing workstations and intermediate servers > (systems that may never have talked directly to contributing servers) to > be tested, which has generated some rather nasty complaints about NJABL. > > In order to solve this problem, two new zones have been setup: > qwdnsbl.njabl.org > qwdynablock.njabl.org > > qw = query watching > > These zones are 100% identical to dnsbl.njabl.org and dynablock.njabl.org. > They've been setup so that contributing servers can have their MTA's setup > to query qwdnsbl.njabl.org and qwdynablock.njabl.org, while content > filters, such as SpamAssassin, should continue to use dnsbl.njabl.org and > dynablock.njabl.org. > > If you are running a contributing server, your queries are no longer being > watched unless they are for qwdnsbl.njabl.org or qwdynablock.njabl.org. > Please update your MTA's to use these zones. > > If you have not coordinated with us to become a "newer method" i.e. query > watching contributing server, this message does not apply to you. Sending > queries for the qw zones will not get your queries watched unless we are > already looking for queries from your IP. > > If you are not currently a contributor, and run a site that handles a > large amount of email or gets unusually high volumes of spam, please have > a look at the following pages > > http://njabl.org/contribute.html > http://njabl.org/method.html > > and consider becoming a query watching contributor. We currently appear > to have more than 30,000 systems using NJABL, but only a few dozen systems > setup as query watching contributors...and until/unless those sites update > their configs to use the qw zones, we're down to just a handful of > contributors who've already been notified and have updated. > > For anyone unaware, dynablock.njabl.org is a new subzone created earlier > this month. On Dec 1, 2003, the maintainer of dynablock.easynet.nl shut > down his DNSBL of dynamic IP spaces. His list was a very comprehensive > (far more comprehensive than NJABL's dynamic IP listings) dynamic IP > DNSBL. Some people considered it too aggressive (too likely to generate > false positives), so rather than import it into dnsbl.njabl.org, it was > added as a separate sub-zone so that those who wanted to use it could, and > those who did not, would not have it forced upon them. > > http://njabl.org/dynablock.html > > Please remember, this is a moderated announcement list. If you wish to > respond to any of this, do not bother trying to send it to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] to the sender instead. > > --- [This E-mail was scanned for viruses by Declude Virus (http://www.declude.com)] --- This E-mail came from the Declude.JunkMail mailing list. To unsubscribe, just send an E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and type "unsubscribe Declude.JunkMail". The archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com.
