> And when the spammers use a joe jobbed email address, what will you do? How > will you know if it really is a drop box, or someones real email address > being Joe Jobbed to mess up your list? Believe me, the spammer will feed > false info to give your list a bad name.
Chris, that is a really good point. I have three answers: (1) I'm hoping that being below the radar might prevent some of what you are talking about... at least a while. And I don't think that the nigeria spammers are the type of spammers who'd frequent this list, for example, as much much as other spammers do, but I could be wrong about that. (2) Messages caught by an e-mal based dnsbl probably shouldn't, by themselves, score high enough to cause a message to be outright blocked. In fact, I often catch these scam messages in my rules based filtering... only to find that, sometimes, they scored just below the threshold of being placed in the spam folder. A dnsbl service like this could put those particular messages "over the top" without harming a mislisted address, if used as I've described. (3) Chances are, a single randomly picked e-mail address that was joe-jobbed would have just about 0% chance of showing up in a particular server that happened to use this service. Especially give the incredibly low percentage of servers which might potentially use this anytime in the next months or years. Rob McEwen PowerView Systems [EMAIL PROTECTED]
