Peter Bowyer wrote: > On 17/09/2007, Marc Perkel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Ted Cooper wrote: >> >>> Marc Perkel wrote: >>> >>> >>>> Peter Bowyer wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>>> On 17/09/2007, Elijah Daniel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> You could also look at third-party reputation services such as >>>>> karmasphere.com which can be integrated into Exim as DNSBLs. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>> This looks like an interesting list. Are you using it? How well does it >>>> work? >>>> >>>> >>> I had a quick look at it after Peter mentioned it. It didn't seem to >>> have the speed of update of an RBL like zen.spamhaus.org as bad hosts >>> took at least 4-6 hours to make it to either a neutral or bad >>> reputation. It may just be missing users, or not up to scratch yet. >>> It looks quite interesting for syndicating a RBL feed, I just can't >>> figure out their business or pricing model. Is it free? Karma based? >>> Free to private use but not commercial? Not a very clear website. I >>> wouldn't mind putting my DNS blocklist up on it so long as I could use >>> it for free :P >>> >>> Mark: Do you get the spamhaus.org syndicated feed at all? >>> >>> >> I use the abusenet RBL mostly and my own lists. After reading the site I >> too was confused. It looks like an interesting idea. I don't know what >> there are using a custom module to communicate with it rather than just >> using DNS. But it has my attention. I'm always looking for a new trick >> to get rid of spam. >> > > One of its interfaces mimics a DNSBL, and you can use karmasphere > feedsets via Exim's (and many other) DNSBL functionality. But as is > explained on the website, the DNSBL interface can only return yes/no > indications, not scores. If you use the alternative karmad perl > interface, you get scores between -1000 and +1000 for each query. You > can connect to karmad via Exim's readsocket functionality. > > Also note that karmasphere's real trick is to combine any or all of > its reputation sources into one custom feedset that meets your > requirements. > > I'm running in 'log and monitor' mode at the moment with karmasphere, > and when I get some time I'll analyse what's going on. But it's > looking interesting. > > Peter > > >
It seems to me that you could return a score if you wanted to. DNS can giver you 4 billion different responses that could be construed as scores. Although they don't say it's a pay to play site when you try to sign up they want a lot of information about you. more than you would ask for if it were free. -- ## List details at http://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://wiki.exim.org/
