I've never used DNSWLs. Just never saw the purpose I guess. Perhaps 
whitelisting is something that can't be delegated to a 3rd party, and 
should be done in-house. I use whitelisting very sparingly, typically 
only for (temporarily) accepting email from a poorly configured server 
(rDNS typically), or to circumvent some other anti-spam measure that is 
resulting in false positives.
-- 
-Eric 'shubes'

On 06/13/2011 06:40 PM, Spamdyke User wrote:
> FANTASTIC!!! First, thank you very much for pointing that out. But this
> brings up another topic which I would like to hear some opinion on..
>
> These dns whitelists are very questionable as far as I can see. Lists
> where spammers can pay to be white listed so they can get their spam
> thru. Not all DNS whitelists are this way but lists like Habeas and BSP
> which are now owned by the same company seem to be bad news. In my
> spamassassin, I have changed the scoring for habeas and BSP from a
> negative score to a positive score. And it has drastically reduced spam.
>
> And then there are the non profit white lists where you can't pay to be
> on them. When they are not financially biased, they are probably more
> reliable.
>
> But, you just blew away my theroy because i always thought that
> dnswl.org was one of the good non profit whitelists. But if they will
> allow people like newsmax to be on the list, I guess I stand corrected.
>
> Ok so that is my uneducated opinion. Does everyone agree or am I missing
> something?
>
> On Tue, 14 Jun 2011 10:07:35 +1000, David Mitchell wrote:
>
>> Here's your problem:
>>
>> dns-whitelist-entry=list.dnswl.org
>>
>> All of the IPs shown in the log from your first post are listed in
>> DNSWL, eg.http://dnswl.org/search.pl?s=64.40.120.207Cheers,
>> Dave
>>
>> On 14/06/2011 07:53, Spamdyke User wrote:
>>> I can't think of one.. With spamdyke working this way, I am having to
>>> use my firewall to block certain senders which is not a good thing..
>>> I will attach my spamdyke.conf. There isn't much of anything in the
>>> files in /etc/spamdyke.d/ just a small list of 5 addresses in the
>>> ip_whiltelist.conf file
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