Marc Perkel wrote:
>> >> > It's been running for about 7 hours now and I've added about 15% to the > size of my blacklist. I've been looking up some of these IPs on dnsstuff > and about 1/2 of them aren't listed anywhere else. I've has 145152 hits > on it in the las 7 hours. > > One think to keep in mind is that it's a low CPU cost to detect spam > bots as compared to running it through spamassassin which is the more > common method and I think this is going to be 100% accurate for the > hosts it collects. And it's going to be faster at detecting spambots. I > think that if this data were fed from many big sources that spambots > could be detected much faster. > > Also - this is powering my public hostkarma blacklist so it's an early > warning for those who are using it. I'm getting bots listed far faster > than spamhaus. Now, suppose that I am a mail administrator having some problems to deliver mails to @perkel.com. If I try to telnet from my mailserver to your listed MX on port 25 to try to diagnose the problem, will you blacklist my legitimate mailserver because I connected to your fake MX?
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