https://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=6220

Kevin A. McGrail <[email protected]> changed:

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--- Comment #20 from Kevin A. McGrail <[email protected]> 2011-12-12 19:14:54 
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(In reply to comment #19)
> (In reply to comment #18)
> > (In reply to comment #17)
> > > DNSWL was just disabled by default due to returning known wrong answers 
> > > to in
> > > abuse situations (bug 6668).  Should this bug be closed as evaluated and 
> > > deemed
> > > inappropriate for the same reason?  Should the handling of the 127.0.0.255
> > > value be changed to not cause false positives?
> > 
> > I would agree.  
> > 
> > Until there is some RBL consensus on a "disabled" answer && code in SA to 
> > deal
> > with it && it doesn't break the currently supported versions, there is no 
> > way
> > an RBL that purposefully causes FPs due to overusage can be considered for
> > default enabling.
> > 
> > Again, my understanding is that this is a good RBL that has promise and 
> > should
> > be considered by Admins, though.
> 
> Huh!?  Did something change significantly?
> 
> http://www.spamtips.org/2011/05/dnsbl-safety-report-5142011.html
> http://www.spamtips.org/2011/01/dnsbl-safety-report-182011.html
> http://www.spamtips.org/2011/01/dnsbl-safety-report-122011.html
> http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/spamassassin-dev/201102.mbox/%[email protected]%3E
> 
> SEMBLACK has a long history of inconsistent behavior.  It often has been
> measured to have a poor safety rating.  It usually has unacceptably high
> overlap.  Once I caught him outright copying other DNSBL's into his own.  More
> recently it behaved as a less safe subset of one of our other DNSBL's.  For
> these reasons I strongly advice folks to avoid using SEMBLACK.

Nothing changed, just wasn't sure where we currently stood on SEM.  I think I
mixed it up with Mailspike in my head.

OK, so this ticket can be closed as not being considered for inclusion due to
anti-abuse DNS FPs coupled with poor safety and questions of admin conduct.

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