This may interest those playing with RBL checks in SA, we have released spamrats.com as a free RBL service now.
http://www.spamrats.com RATS-NoPtr and RATS-Dyna will be the most useful, RATS-Spam is still in testing phase, so is not available yet. This data is collected from ISP's all over north america, and is generated by the most virulant of RATS. Normally in order to become listed, they will have triggered several checks, including rate limiters, and conform to signatures that indicate they are Bot or Trojan orientated.. rather than the more traditional use of Spam traps, so we do not expect false positives. We actually recommend that RATS-NoPtr be used to block at the edge level, however you can use it as you see fit. (Mail servers should have Reverse DNS right? And they sure should not be sending excessive amounts of email, to multiple ISP's) RATS-Dyna might in theory get triggered by a mail server that uses Non-Conforming Best Practises for Reverse DNS, (but they also have to be sending abusive levels of email to get listed, and appear to be home PC style connections) Have fun :) -- -- "Catch the Magic of Linux..." ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Michael Peddemors - President/CEO - LinuxMagic Products, Services, Support and Development Visit us at http://www.linuxmagic.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------ A Wizard IT Company - For More Info http://www.wizard.ca "LinuxMagic" is a Registered TradeMark of Wizard Tower TechnoServices Ltd. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 604-589-0037 Beautiful British Columbia, Canada This email and any electronic data contained are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to which they are addressed. Please note that any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and are not intended to represent those of the company.
