Jason R. Mastaler wrote: > Malcolm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> I don't know if it's anything important but it would appear tmda.net >> is black holed as a known spamming domain. How ironic. > > How idiotic you mean.
Not really, xbl.selwerd.cx is NOT a RBL nor is it a DNSBL although it acts in the same fashion. It is a *whitelist* server. Essentially, everything FAILS which has not been OKAYED. The only person who should be using this is the selwerd.cx folks. Any one else using it is IN ERROR. > I'll contact the xbl.selwerd.cx folks, but I guess you missed the > following (from http://selwerd.cx/xbl/): There's no real need unless you just happen to want to be whitelisted by them. No admin is supposed to use their list to filter mail. > > Is using xbl.selwerd.cx to block e-mail a good idea? > > No, unless you don't mind missing a lot of legitimate e-mail. That's an understatement. You will lost _TONS_ of email, including ALL email from verio IP space. They have a bunch of sprint and 100% of verio blocked. > > I think the lesson learned here is to be careful which RBL servers you > use. Well the admin should look at it this way. On October 26th, 2002 5500 IP zones were tested against various "lists", of those: 3845 were blocked by xbl.selwerd.cx. I think that speaks for itself. Second to that is blackholes.five-ten-sg.com which is an equally as harsh a list. Neither should be used. The third is relays.osirusoft.com which uses SPEWS but is otherwise pretty accurate. (and the third spot is the union of returned answers, not just the 127.0.0.4 IPs) http://www.sdsc.edu/~jeff/spam/bc-20021026.html -davidu _____________________________________________ tmda-users mailing list ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://tmda.net/lists/listinfo/tmda-users
