> >On Mon, 22 Jun 2009, Arvid Picciani wrote:
> >> rich...@buzzhost.co.uk wrote:
> >>>  It comes with great sadness that I have to announce the imminent
> >>>  closure of SORBS.
> >> crap ...  sorbs is the only list I trust enough to have them at SMTP level.
> >
> >In the past, I did some tests to determine which lists caught the most
> >spam without FP's, and found that sbl-xbl.spamhaus.org (not the full
> >'zen' rbl), was catching over 90% of spam. I also use njabl, though
> >lately it looks like it mostly overlaps with spamhaus, but the 'web' and
> >'dul' lists from sorbs are still catching a couple of 100 spam each day
> >that were not caught by spamhaus. So I would really hate to see SORBS go.
> >
> >IMPORTANT: If sorbs does not get picked-up by a new host, will SA
> >developers be ready to roll-out an SA update to remove the sorbs rules, so
> >that we don't suffer a bunch of timeouts? Or how does that work?

On 23.06.09 09:29, Jeff Moss wrote:
> WHAT?  Sorbs and Spamhaus are polar opposites.  Spamhaus is a great
> organization while SORBS is a POS that helped give all blacklists a bad name.

sorbs makes good job, although there are some whiners not understanding the
stuff...

> I don't know if SpamAssassin has ever used it. 

it still does:

50_scores.cf:score RCVD_IN_SORBS_BLOCK 0 # n=1 n=2 n=3
50_scores.cf:score RCVD_IN_SORBS_DUL 0 1.615 0 0.877 # n=0 n=2
50_scores.cf:score RCVD_IN_SORBS_HTTP 0 0.001 0 0.001 # n=0 n=2
50_scores.cf:score RCVD_IN_SORBS_MISC 0 0.001 0 0.353 # n=0 n=2
50_scores.cf:score RCVD_IN_SORBS_SMTP 0 # n=0 n=1 n=2 n=3
50_scores.cf:score RCVD_IN_SORBS_SOCKS 0 0.182 0 0.801 # n=0 n=2
50_scores.cf:score RCVD_IN_SORBS_WEB 0 1.117 0 0.619 # n=0 n=2
50_scores.cf:score RCVD_IN_SORBS_ZOMBIE 0 # n=0 n=1 n=2 n=3

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