Re: Preferred DNSBL

2004-09-30 Thread Ed Kasky
At 05:01 AM Thursday, 9/30/2004, John Fleming wrote -=> - Original Message - From: "Ed Kasky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Monday, September 27, 2004 2:49 PM Subject: Re: Preferred DNSBL > Rejects Since Sunday 4:00 am via rbls: > > spamcop: 65 > maps rbl+

Re: [sa-list] Re: Preferred DNSBL

2004-09-30 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
September 27, 2004 2:49 PM Subject: Re: Preferred DNSBL Rejects Since Sunday 4:00 am via rbls: spamcop: 65 maps rbl+: 154 dsbl.org: 9 njabl.org: 18 spamhaus: 18 What/how are you guys gathering the data above? Thanks - John -- "Is Gushi a person or an entity?" "Yes" -Bad Ka

Re: Preferred DNSBL

2004-09-30 Thread John Fleming
- Original Message - From: "Ed Kasky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Monday, September 27, 2004 2:49 PM Subject: Re: Preferred DNSBL > Rejects Since Sunday 4:00 am via rbls: > > spamcop: 65 > maps rbl+: 154 > dsbl.org: 9 > njabl.org: 18 > spamhaus

RE: Preferred DNSBL

2004-09-28 Thread Ed Kasky
At 07:29 AM Tuesday, 9/28/2004, Chris Santerre wrote -=> However, there are numerous people who don't read the nice little message. They don't get passed the "Rejected" part. In all I think I've had to fix maybe 5-6 customers who were blocked over the coarse of 2.5 years. That's not bad! Want to kn

Re: Preferred DNSBL

2004-09-28 Thread Kelson
Chris Santerre wrote: The question is always, did you block any legit mail... The question is, can the person blocked read english? I send back a nice little message saying you have been rejected due to listing on xx.com RBL. And to send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to be taken off the list.

Re: Preferred DNSBL

2004-09-28 Thread snowjack
On Tue, 28 Sep 2004 08:57:28 -0500, "Bob Apthorpe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Hi, Hello. > On Mon, 27 Sep 2004 15:10:30 -0700 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > On Mon, 27 Sep 2004 12:52:41 -0400 (EDT), "Dan Mahoney, System Admin" > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > > Hey guys, as a quick survey, if

Re: Preferred DNSBL

2004-09-28 Thread Bob Apthorpe
On Tue, 28 Sep 2004 10:47:20 -0400 Kris Deugau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bob Apthorpe wrote: > > I also firewall traffic from unassigned ARIN netspace - see > > http://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv4-address-space. > > I did this for a while, but somewhere along the line some of those > unassign

Re: Preferred DNSBL

2004-09-28 Thread Tony Finch
On Tue, 28 Sep 2004, Kris Deugau wrote: > > I did this for a while, but somewhere along the line some of those > unassigned netblocks got assigned. I didn't discover this until about 6 > months after one corporate customer suddenly couldn't send mail to one > of their suppliers. Fortunately I had

Re: Preferred DNSBL

2004-09-28 Thread Kris Deugau
Bob Apthorpe wrote: > I also firewall traffic from unassigned ARIN netspace - see > http://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv4-address-space. I did this for a while, but somewhere along the line some of those unassigned netblocks got assigned. I didn't discover this until about 6 months after one corpo

RE: Preferred DNSBL

2004-09-28 Thread Chris Santerre
>-Original Message- >From: Ed Kasky [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Monday, September 27, 2004 5:56 PM >To: Raymond Dijkxhoorn >Cc: users@spamassassin.apache.org >Subject: Re: Preferred DNSBL > > >At 12:59 PM Monday, 9/27/2004, Raymond Dijkxhoorn wrote -=

Re: Preferred DNSBL

2004-09-28 Thread Bob Apthorpe
Hi, On Mon, 27 Sep 2004 15:10:30 -0700 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Mon, 27 Sep 2004 12:52:41 -0400 (EDT), "Dan Mahoney, System Admin" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > Hey guys, as a quick survey, if you're blocking ips at the MTA level, > > which are you using? > > I think it's a bad idea and

Re: Preferred DNSBL

2004-09-28 Thread Jeff Chan
On Monday, September 27, 2004, 9:52:41 AM, System Dan Mahoney wrote: > Hey guys, as a quick survey, if you're blocking ips at the MTA level, > which are you using? sbl-xbl.spamhaus.org list.dsbl.org Spamhaus catches 90+% of them. Jeff C. -- Jeff Chan mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.surbl.o

Re: Preferred DNSBL

2004-09-28 Thread Will Yardley
On Mon, Sep 27, 2004 at 12:49:14PM -0700, Ed Kasky wrote: > At 09:52 AM Monday, 9/27/2004, Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote -=> > > Hey guys, as a quick survey, if you're blocking ips at the MTA level, > > which are you using? > Rejects Since Sunday 4:00 am via rbls: > > spamcop: 65 > maps rbl+:

Re: Preferred DNSBL

2004-09-27 Thread David Brodbeck
John Rudd wrote: 1) Greet_Delay (default 30 seconds) -- had some brief false positives with mac.com, but they fixed their MTA to stop being so impatient. You might want to keep in mind that some MTAs that do callout verification use 30 seconds as the default timeout, and if you make them wait to

Re: Preferred DNSBL

2004-09-27 Thread snowjack
On Mon, 27 Sep 2004 12:52:41 -0400 (EDT), "Dan Mahoney, System Admin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Hey guys, as a quick survey, if you're blocking ips at the MTA level, > which are you using? I think it's a bad idea and don't do it at all. Much better to configure your MTA to reject mail based on

Re: Preferred DNSBL

2004-09-27 Thread Ed Kasky
At 12:59 PM Monday, 9/27/2004, Raymond Dijkxhoorn wrote -=> Hi! Rejects Since Sunday 4:00 am via rbls: spamcop: 65 maps rbl+: 154 dsbl.org: 9 njabl.org: 18 spamhaus: 18 The question is always, did you block any legit mail... Since this server supplies email for a limited number of users, we made th

RE: Preferred DNSBL

2004-09-27 Thread Bret Miller
> Hey guys, as a quick survey, if you're blocking ips at the MTA level, > which are you using? sbl-xbl.spamhaus.org

Re: Preferred DNSBL

2004-09-27 Thread John Rudd
On Sep 27, 2004, at 12:59 PM, Raymond Dijkxhoorn wrote: Hi! Rejects Since Sunday 4:00 am via rbls: spamcop: 65 maps rbl+: 154 dsbl.org: 9 njabl.org: 18 spamhaus: 18 The question is always, did you block any legit mail... I realize that the thread here is specifically about DNSBL's, but I think one

Re: Preferred DNSBL

2004-09-27 Thread Raymond Dijkxhoorn
Hi! Rejects Since Sunday 4:00 am via rbls: spamcop: 65 maps rbl+: 154 dsbl.org: 9 njabl.org: 18 spamhaus: 18 The question is always, did you block any legit mail... Bye, Raymond.

Re: Preferred DNSBL

2004-09-27 Thread Ed Kasky
Rejects Since Sunday 4:00 am via rbls: spamcop: 65 maps rbl+: 154 dsbl.org: 9 njabl.org: 18 spamhaus: 18 At 09:52 AM Monday, 9/27/2004, Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote -=> Hey guys, as a quick survey, if you're blocking ips at the MTA level, which are you using? -Dan Ed . . . . . . . . I distrust

Re: Preferred DNSBL

2004-09-27 Thread Spam Admin
> combined.njabl.org > list.dsbl.org > sbl-xbl.spamhaus.org Quite successfully, I might add. I haven't had a legitimate complaint in over 8 weeks (knock on wood), with about 55,000 SMTP connection attempts per work day...

Re: Preferred DNSBL

2004-09-27 Thread Tony Finch
On Mon, 27 Sep 2004, Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: > Hey guys, as a quick survey, if you're blocking ips at the MTA level, which > are you using? The MAPS RBL+ is our most effective blocking rule. Tony. -- f.a.n.finch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://dotat.at/ FORTIES: WEST OR NORTHWEST 6 OR 7,

Re: Preferred DNSBL

2004-09-27 Thread Andy Jezierski
"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 09/27/2004 12:42:20 PM: > Agreed, comcast.net's mail servers were in sorbs big list...our customers > didnt like that! > > it might be helpful to know in what capacity the servers are working > in...ISPs, corporate, private? > That's why I tend

Re: Preferred DNSBL

2004-09-27 Thread Jack L. Stone
Whoops! Replied to fast. You only wanted net checks. Sorry! >Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 13:17:39 -0500 >To: "Dan Mahoney, System Admin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, users@spamassassin.apache.org >From: "Jack L. Stone" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: Preferred DNS

Re: Preferred DNSBL

2004-09-27 Thread Jack L. Stone
At 12:52 PM 9.27.2004 -0400, Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: >Hey guys, as a quick survey, if you're blocking ips at the MTA level, >which are you using? > >-Dan > Sendmail's access.db/milter-regex & milter-greylist(delay, not block) Cannot get milter-sender to work because it requires compilin

Re: Preferred DNSBL

2004-09-27 Thread Anthony Edwards
On Mon, Sep 27, 2004 at 10:50:21AM -0700, jdow wrote: > Recently dsbl blocked a whole Earthlink smtp server as a spam relay > leading to, no doubt, an incredible number of false positive rejections, > including some of my email to this list. Generally, those using dsbl.org lists to block or rejec

RE: Preferred DNSBL

2004-09-27 Thread Chris Santerre
This is what I use: > : sbl.spamhaus.org > : bl.spamcop.net > : cbl.abuseat.org > : http.dnsbl.sorbs.net > : socks.dnsbl.sorbs.net > : misc.dnsbl.sorbs.net > : smtp.dnsbl.sorbs.net > : web.dnsbl.sorbs.net > : zombie.dnsbl.sorbs.net > : dul.dnsbl.sorbs.net > : nomail.dnsbl.sorbs.net Use DelayCh

Re: Preferred DNSBL

2004-09-27 Thread jdow
From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > spamcop.net > njabl.org > spamhaus.org > ordb.org > > recently took a lot of heat for using sorbs.net As a person for whom the concept of DNS based blackholes is a little troublesome I note it would not be wise for someone with corporate customers to use a black hole

Re: Preferred DNSBL

2004-09-27 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
-0500 > To: users@spamassassin.apache.org > Subject: Re: Preferred DNSBL > > > > > > "Dan Mahoney, System Admin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 09/27/2004 > 11:52:41 AM: > >> Hey guys, as a quick survey, if you're blocking ips at the MTA level, &

Re: Preferred DNSBL

2004-09-27 Thread Ron Johnson
a pretty good one) > > > > > RE: Preferred DNSBL > > Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: > > Hey guys, as a quick survey, if you're blocking ips at the MTA level, > > which are you using? > >

Re: Preferred DNSBL

2004-09-27 Thread Kelson
Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: Hey guys, as a quick survey, if you're blocking ips at the MTA level, which are you using? Just one: Spamhaus SBL+XBL -- Kelson Vibber SpeedGate Communications

RE: Preferred DNSBL

2004-09-27 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
spamcop.net njabl.org spamhaus.org ordb.org recently took a lot of heat for using sorbs.net RE: Preferred DNSBL Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: > Hey guys, as a quick survey, if you're blocking ips at the MTA level, > which are you using?

Re: Preferred DNSBL

2004-09-27 Thread Andy Jezierski
"Dan Mahoney, System Admin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 09/27/2004 11:52:41 AM: > Hey guys, as a quick survey, if you're blocking ips at the MTA level, > which are you using? > > -Dan > > -- Sorted by number of hits, the first three are by far the big hitters. Had sbl-xbl.spamhaus.org for a

RE: Preferred DNSBL

2004-09-27 Thread Chris Connell
dnsbl.njabl.org sbl.spamhaus.org relays.ordb.org -Original Message- From: Barry Porter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 27 September 2004 18:03 To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Re: Preferred DNSBL -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote

Re: Preferred DNSBL

2004-09-27 Thread Barry Porter
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: > Hey guys, as a quick survey, if you're blocking ips at the MTA level, > which are you using? list.dsbl.org sbl-xbl.spamhaus.org cn.countries.nerd.dk - -- Regards Barry -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG

RE: Preferred DNSBL

2004-09-27 Thread Greg Deputy
spamhaus > -Original Message- > From: Dan Mahoney, System Admin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, September 27, 2004 9:53 AM > To: users@spamassassin.apache.org > Subject: Preferred DNSBL > > > Hey guys, as a quick survey, if you're blocking ips at the MTA level, > which are yo