Overzealous spam blocklists

[Matt Jonkman]

Oh geez. Their description of the list is like a how-to of what not to 
do for an rbl. It's unfortunate that a prominent linux org would use 
something like that. Did you get yourself off the list?

FYI: We use primarily spamhaus's sbl-xbl and just lve it. It blocks 
spammers, virus infected systems, and bot spamming systems. I don't 
think we've ever in 2 years now had a false to resolve. That's handling 
mail for about 250 domains and companies. Not much better endorsement 
than that.

THey're at www.spamhaus.org. Free service. Highly recommend them.

Matt

Michael Schultheiss wrote:
> Matt Jonkman wrote:
> 
>>Question for Michael: What blocklist was it you were listed on?
>>
>>I admin a service that does filtering and am very confident in the rbl's 
>>we use, wanted to make sure I wasn't using the one causing you issues. :)
> 
> 
> It looks like a list created by the company that runs linux.org:
> 
> http://www.invlogic.com/mail/dial.html
> 
> Reading their description, the list purposely includes "Server farms,
> colocations, other collections of systems" so my IP address was
> "legitimately" included since it falls in one of their categories but
> their list is definitely overzealous.  The addresses for my IP addresses
> (other than my cable modem) don't appear in other, more sane blocklists.
> I checked http://www.moensted.dk/spam/ which queries hundreds of
> blocklists and I only appeared in two lists (both of which categorize IP
> addresses by country)

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