Right now I have DUL at 553, and RBL and RSS at 421. It's annoying seeing
the RSS hosts retrying all the time, so I was considering changing to 553 for
RSS as well.
IMHO DUL should always be 553, because those hosts should never be allowed to
send mail to you.. So there's really no sense in deferring it.
--Adam
On Wed, Mar 01, 2000 at 01:21:43PM -0800, Aaron L. Meehan wrote:
> Quoting Mark E. Drummond ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> > I am currently using rblsmtpd to block spammers on the RBL. I may add ORBS as
> > well. Think I'll wait, gather some stats on how much is being blocked by RBL,
> > and then compare with RBL+ORBS.
>
> My anti-spam mantra is "RSS+RBL+DUL"
>
> I hardly ever get spam these days. Perhaps an average of one a week.
> Am I just lucky? I dunno for sure, but I opened a hotmail account
> just for grins, never used it, and a month later already have 30+
> spams. Wierd.
>
> Since djb's quotes are hip right now, I'll invoke the "Profile, don't
> speculate" rule (I think that was the quote...? ). I really wanted to
> see just how things were going and this thread is my excuse.
>
> These stats are for Feb 24, 9:15pm local until now.
>
> RSS has blocked 2294 smtp connections.
> DUL has blocked 306 smtp connections.
> RBL has blocked 3767 smtp connections.
>
> note: RBL rejections output 421 error code, DUL and RSS 553. That
> does seem strange, don't ask my why I did that now, because I don't
> know I have a particular reason. It would seem more logical to have
> RSS hosts receive a deferral, but there are a lot more hosts on RSS,
> which would result in quite a few deferrals. I *think* that was
> my reasoning...
>
> qmailanalog stats for the time period, and the actual hosts rejected,
> are at http://defiant.coinet.com/rss.html for those who are interested
> in looking.
>
> Our local cable company got listed in RSS a couple weeks ago,
> resulting in only the second time, I know of that is, that legit email
> may have been affected (been using RSS since before it was affiliated
> with MAPS). The bozos got relay-raped by a viagra spammer.
>
> Aaron
>
