>Although I know Outblaze (6 million users) manually adjust the 
>relays.osirusoft.com zone they use, removing some of the larger 
>spews entries.

How can this be arranged?

When I first started running my own rbl, my grand idea was to request 
the blacklists from big rbls, then cull the list as I saw fit to 
reduce my collateral damage. I actually asked this of orbz, but got 
denied real quick.

Since then, having thought about it, I realize that getting *then 
culling* such a list (not to mention multiple lists) and also keeping 
it updated would be a nightmare. In addition to whatever copyright 
issues there might be. So I see this for the folly that it was. And 
yet, how does Outblaze do it?

Regardless, the "friendly" folks at orbz did tell me that there is 
another way: they suggested that I run rblsmtpd (another of djbware's 
products) in front of rbldns to whitelist their blacklist (an 
override of some kind). I have yet to investigate this one, but if 
anyone can shed light on a precise whitelisting-of-a-blacklist 
process then I'd appreciate it.

I get the impression that Joe Jared, while disliked by an obvious 
group of individuals, is more or less reasonable. On his site he 
states "OsiruSoft's Database is freely available" but I'm not sure 
whether that only means I can do an rbl lookup for free. Think I'll 
write him...


Stefan Jeglinski

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