I know that the MONKEYFORMMAIL and MONKEYPROXIES list are dead and apparently has been for a while but we had a problem last Monday in that hundreds of legitimate emails started getting caught with these lists. I ve since disabled the tests in Junkmail. I saw that someone else had a problem with these tests and someone mentioned that these lists had been dead for a while. Can someone please explain why all of a sudden my Junkmail started failing emails with these when these lists had been dead? Also, how do I avoid something like this form happening again?
The problem is that the person who run those two tests got fed up with people still querying them 6 months after the tests died. He finally decided he would "blacklist the world" (as Joe Jarad of Osirusoft did when spammers killed off his spam database last August, which made front page news).
Right now, the only way to deal with this is to occasionally update the global.cfg file to remove dead spam databases (and add new ones, which makes updating the file more worthwhile). However, there are people in the anti-spam community that are working on a standard way for a spam database to say "I'm gone! Please stop using me!" to prevent this problem in the future.
-Scott
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