Overzealous spam blocklists

[Doug Porter]

Matt Jonkman <matt at infotex.com> wrote:
> 
> 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.

Ya, the SBL+XBL is great.  I recall only one false positive (on
the SBL half).  Some messages were bounced from a LSB list server
was in a /24 next to a big spam operation.  Once I pointed it out
to Spamhaus though it was quickly corrected.

-- 
Doug Porter <dsp at dsp.name>