What I want to determine is whether Declude Junkmail is worth using without
the mail-abuse.org subscriptions

it is, and so it IMGate, for the same reasons


, or whether those subscriptions provide the
majority of the filtering power.

they don't, here's the rejects report of a user of IMGate who subscribes IMGate to to mail-abuse.org:


Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2003 11:59:14 -0500 (EST)
X-RCPT-TO: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
X-UIDL: 334297675
Status: U

      1 SMTP Exceeded Hard Error Limit after MAIL
      2 ACL mta_clients_onedict
      2 ACL from_senders_clueless
      3 ACL mta_clients_pipel (pipelining)
      4 SMTP invalid [EMAIL PROTECTED]
      5 ACL mta_clients_relay
     10 ACL body checks
     13 ACL to_local_recipients unknown recipient
     21 ACL mta_clients_slet
     27 ACL mta_clients_senders_regexp
     44 SMTP invalid [EMAIL PROTECTED]
     52 ACL to_recipients_dead
     68 ACL helo_hostnames
     81 SMTP Exceeded Hard Error Limit after DATA
     92 ACL mta_clients_blaksender
    123 ACL header checks
    153 ACL from_senders_nxdomain
    157 ACL mta_clients_bogus
    262 SMTP unauthorized pipelining
    415 ACL unauthorized relay
    519 RBL rbl-plus.mail-abuse.org <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
    673 ACL from_senders_slet
    746 SMTP sender address verification in progress
    814 DNS timeout for MTA PTR hostname (forged @sender.domain)
   1314 ACL mta_clients_dead
   1489 SMTP Exceeded Hard Error Limit after RCPT
   1880 SMTP sender address undeliverable
   2422 ACL from_senders_black_regexp
   2957 ACL from_senders_black
   3291 DNS no A/MX for @sender.domain
   3451 ACL mta_clients_bw
   4063 DNS nxdomain for MTA PTR hostname (forged @sender.domain)
   5494 ACL from_senders_imgfx
   9398 SMTP sender address unverifiable
  46901 ACL to_relay_recipients unknown recipient
===========================
  86947 TOTAL

In general, using several free RBL servers makes a welcome but not dominant contribution that exceeds the rejects by mail-abuse.org.

Len





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