At 6:22 PM -0700 8/7/03, Global Homes Webmaster wrote: >On 08/07/03 at 20:47 -0400, Paul Hess opined: > > Based on this I'll probably dump ordb, blitzed, and some of the >> country specific RBL's. > >Blitzed has been quite effective for me. Your result could be because it's >the last entry in your list, after at least one other RBL that lists open >proxies (relays.osirusoft.com). Also, make sure that you've got the right >address range for it in your internal blacklist. It's 127.1.0.1-32, not >127.0.0.2-255.
Thanks ... I had totally missed that!!! I'm looking forward to seeing how blitzed does for me. >You might try switching the order of SPEWS and SBL and see how they >compare. SPEWS is one of the worst offenders when it comes to arbitrarily >assigning guilt by association and blacklisting huge blocks in order to >catch a handful of hosts that are actually engaged in spamming. If you can >see your way clear to not using it, you'll probably significantly reduce I'll try that experiment (switching SPEWS and SBL). Now that I am just running mail for a few small businesses rather than generic "customers" the users have allowed, and pretty much demanded, that I take a very aggressive stance against SPAM as long as I am willing to work with them to solve any major problems from people they really need to correspond with. So I haven't been as worried about false positives as I used to. >your risk of false positives. Don't forget to adjust your internal >blacklist to ignore SPEWS responses from Osirusoft. A similar comment goes >for Spamcop. I assume this advice applies only if I get rid of Spews, otherwise it doesn't matter right? > > 53 relays.ordb.org >> 628 Spews.relays.OsiruSoft.com >> 142 sbl.spamhaus.org >> 483 relays.osirusoft.com >> 451 list.dsbl.org >> 31 korea.services.net >> 158 bl.spamcop.net >> 8 brazil.blackholes.us >> 3 thailand.blackholes.us >> 8 china.blackholes.us > > 0 opm.blitzed.org ############################################################# This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To switch to the INDEX mode, E-mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Send administrative queries to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
