Michael Scheidell wrote:
From: Bob Amen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Organization: O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2008 17:02:11 -0800
To: "users@spamassassin.apache.org" <users@spamassassin.apache.org>
Subject: Re: Pbl.spamhaus.org down?
Quite possibly. I think they're getting stricter regarding their
fair use policy. One of my servers was blocked while another wasn't even
though the latter was just as high volume. I suspect the other server
would have been blocked had I not opted for their paid service.
I highly recommend their paid service anyway. It ends up working
much faster because all queries are local (rbldnsd). We should support
their work too and it's not very expensive.
And just _HOW_ would one even know they HAD a paid service or what their
thresholds are?
Nothing on their web site, nothing on the pbl.spamhaus.org web site.
http://www.spamhaus.org/organization/dnsblusage.html
says:
1. Your use of the Spamhaus DNSBLs is non-commercial*, /and/
2. Your email traffic is less than 80,000 SMTP connections per day, /and/
3. Your DNSBL query volume is less than 320,000 queries per day.
as a result of (1), if the queries come from services known to be
commercial, you may get blocked (there is a problem with Barracuda for
example).
Other "caveats" include:
- if you happen to be part of a network that is blocked, you may need to
ask for whitelisting.
- if your queries pass through a forwarder, the number of queries may
increase quickly...
- if your IPs are in a network that blocks spamhaus, it may be blocked:
http://www.spamhaus.org/faq/answers.lasso?section=DNSBL%20Usage#83
spam-l may be a better place to discuss this.
I am paying for a commercial DCC service, so I understand about commercial
use.
(pardon the did at last weeks conversations) nothing saying this (use of
spamhaus) is a 'introductory' free offer. SA removed (commented out) DCC
plugin since it is a dual use (free for non-commercial use) paid
subscription for commercial use. Why not warn people about the 'temporary'
RBLS?
And how would ANYONE using it EVER know they were blocked except that their
email would start slowing down as pbl/zen... Etc starting taking 5 mins each
to fail?
Its not like each and every one of our ip addresses doesn't resolve, our
whois record is correct, even include working phone numbers.
