Re: The day SORBS goes away ...

2012-04-14 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On 13 Apr 2012 22:01:14 -, John Levine said: dnslists = dialups.mail-abuse.org \ : rbl-plus.mail-abuse.org \ Are you paying Trend for access to these? If not, you're not getting any answers from them and they're not blocking anything. Do they

Re: The day SORBS goes away ...

2012-04-14 Thread John R. Levine
dnslists = dialups.mail-abuse.org \ : rbl-plus.mail-abuse.org \ Are you paying Trend for access to these? yes, i have an arrangement I used to pay (not very much) but realized several years ago that after using the Spamhaus lists, MAPS didn't catch

Re: The day SORBS goes away ...

2012-04-14 Thread Randy Bush
i have not tested to see who catches what. not really into spam research. just trying to reduce it for a server. randy

Re: The day SORBS goes away ...

2012-04-14 Thread John Levine
Are you paying Trend for access to these? If not, you're not getting any answers from them and they're not blocking anything. Do they return a canned answer that says don't block, or do you get to wait for a DNS timeout? Is there some reason you're asking random people rather than spending

Re: The day SORBS goes away ...

2012-04-13 Thread John Levine
dnslists = dialups.mail-abuse.org \ : rbl-plus.mail-abuse.org \ Are you paying Trend for access to these? If not, you're not getting any answers from them and they're not blocking anything. R's, John

Re: The day SORBS goes away ...

2012-04-13 Thread Randy Bush
dnslists = dialups.mail-abuse.org \ : rbl-plus.mail-abuse.org \ Are you paying Trend for access to these? yes, i have an arrangement randy

Re: The day SORBS goes away ...

2012-04-09 Thread Brian Keefer
On Apr 7, 2012, at 4:41 PM, TR Shaw wrote: As for SORBS, most competent mail admins dropped its use a long time ago. I thought when Proofpoint took it over things would change (I actually thought they would dump the SORBS name because of bad karma) but it hasn't happened. Out of

Re: The day SORBS goes away ...

2012-04-09 Thread Ray Van Dolson
On Mon, Apr 09, 2012 at 09:50:00AM -0700, Brian Keefer wrote: On Apr 7, 2012, at 4:41 PM, TR Shaw wrote: As for SORBS, most competent mail admins dropped its use a long time ago. I thought when Proofpoint took it over things would change (I actually thought they would dump the SORBS

Re: The day SORBS goes away ...

2012-04-09 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Apr 7, 2012, at 19:41 , TR Shaw wrote: As for Yahoo, the problem will probably go away on its own over time. The problem with companies that are in questionable/bad financial shape is that they defund many activities that do not seem important but actually are. These, such as abuse

Re: The day SORBS goes away ...

2012-04-09 Thread Dan White
On 04/09/12 09:50 -0700, Brian Keefer wrote: On Apr 7, 2012, at 4:41 PM, TR Shaw wrote: As for SORBS, most competent mail admins dropped its use a long time ago. I thought when Proofpoint took it over things would change (I actually thought they would dump the SORBS name because of bad

Re: The day SORBS goes away ...

2012-04-09 Thread Blake Dunlap
Generally when faced with SORBS related blocking, I have found it far more effective to contact the receiving side and show them the ample Google history about SORBS and the effect it has on their ability to receive email their customers/employees have requested, and have them either change their

Re: The day SORBS goes away ...

2012-04-09 Thread Randy Bush
dropcondition = ${if isip4{$sender_host_address}} message = blocked because $sender_host_address is \ in blacklist at $dnslist_domain: $dnslist_text !dnslists = list.dnswl.org dnslists = dialups.mail-abuse.org \

Re: The day SORBS goes away ...

2012-04-09 Thread Jon Lewis
On Tue, 10 Apr 2012, Randy Bush wrote: dropcondition = ${if isip4{$sender_host_address}} message = blocked because $sender_host_address is \ in blacklist at $dnslist_domain: $dnslist_text !dnslists = list.dnswl.org dnslists

Re: The day SORBS goes away ...

2012-04-07 Thread Rich Kulawiec
Yahoo's personnel have long since demonstrated that (a) they couldn't possibly care less about the spam, phishing, and other forms of abuse that they're emanating, supporting or hosting on a systemic and chronic basis (b) they are incapable of recognizing their own users, hosts, and networks even

Re: The day SORBS goes away ...

2012-04-07 Thread Hank Nussbacher
On Sat, 7 Apr 2012, Rich Kulawiec wrote: I recently had a similar run-in with another ISP unrelated to Yahoo. It involved a phishing site on one of their customers. Countless emails to their abuse@ email went unanswered. Then one day I bumped into their VP who was trying to sell me

Re: The day SORBS goes away ...

2012-04-07 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Sat, Apr 07, 2012 at 08:33:10PM +0300, Hank Nussbacher wrote: On Sat, 7 Apr 2012, Rich Kulawiec wrote: Clearly, this is idiotic reasoning and only when others start blocking their IP ranges and DNS servers will they ever wake up. But how idiotic is it? Do you have all Yahoo IP space and

Re: The day SORBS goes away ...

2012-04-07 Thread Barry Shein
Something I'm considering is just limiting the max size of an email from Yahoo severely, enough to say I've changed my address from yahoo to ___. We get pounded day and night with multimegabyte (per each) spam emails from them. Yahoo isn't the only one but the most frequent. --

Re: The day SORBS goes away ...

2012-04-07 Thread TR Shaw
On Apr 7, 2012, at 6:35 PM, Barry Shein wrote: Something I'm considering is just limiting the max size of an email from Yahoo severely, enough to say I've changed my address from yahoo to ___. We get pounded day and night with multimegabyte (per each) spam emails from them. Yahoo

The day SORBS goes away ...

2012-04-06 Thread goemon
The day SORBS goes away is the day ab...@yahoo.com starts functioning properly and yahoo starts booting spammers. The day SORBS goes away is the day BS like this stops happening: - The following addresses had permanent fatal errors - ab...@noc.privatedns.com (reason: 554 rejected

Re: The day SORBS goes away ...

2012-04-06 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
err, i dont know but yahoo hasnt yet acquired this random webhost whose abuse you're trying to mail On Friday, April 6, 2012, goe...@anime.net wrote: The day SORBS goes away is the day ab...@yahoo.com starts functioning properly and yahoo starts booting spammers. The day SORBS goes away

Re: The day SORBS goes away ...

2012-04-06 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Sat, 07 Apr 2012 07:00:52 +0530, Suresh Ramasubramanian said: err, i dont know but yahoo hasnt yet acquired this random webhost whose abuse you're trying to mail - The following addresses had permanent fatal errors - ab...@noc.privatedns.com (reason: 554 rejected due to spam

Re: The day SORBS goes away ...

2012-04-06 Thread goemon
On Friday, April 6, 2012, goe...@anime.net wrote: The day SORBS goes away is the day ab...@yahoo.com starts functioning properly and yahoo starts booting spammers. The day SORBS goes away is the day BS like this stops happening: - The following addresses had permanent fatal errors - ab

Re: The day SORBS goes away ...

2012-04-06 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
On Sat, Apr 7, 2012 at 7:25 AM, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: Yahoo is only a hegemony among spam havens, not a monopoly.  There's still freelance havens out there, and they'll go away when SORBS does. Sorbs did have a decent set of traps - and did catch a lot of spam. The problem was