Re: [OT] was SORBS

2010-04-30 Thread Per Jessen
Nigel Frankcom wrote: We're on a BT only exchange here so it's them or nothing, Really? Over ten years ago when I lived in the UK, my first provider was Nildram, I'm sure they didn't run the local exchange. Same here in Switzerland - most of the fibre and copper belongs to Swisscom, then

Re: [OT] was SORBS

2010-04-30 Thread Per Jessen
corpus.defero wrote: 2. No mail server rejects based on SORBS. It rejected where admins choose to implement SORBS at an SMTP level. Same thing. /Per Jessen, Zürich

Re: [OT] was SORBS

2010-04-30 Thread corpus.defero
On Fri, 2010-04-30 at 21:09 +0200, Per Jessen wrote: corpus.defero wrote: 2. No mail server rejects based on SORBS. It rejected where admins choose to implement SORBS at an SMTP level. Same thing. /Per Jessen, Zürich Key point is the admin has made a choice and is aware

Re: [OT] was SORBS

2010-04-30 Thread Per Jessen
corpus.defero wrote: On Fri, 2010-04-30 at 21:09 +0200, Per Jessen wrote: corpus.defero wrote: 2. No mail server rejects based on SORBS. It rejected where admins choose to implement SORBS at an SMTP level. Same thing. /Per Jessen, Zürich Key point is the admin has made a choice

SORBS

2010-04-20 Thread Nigel Frankcom
Hi All, Am I the only one incabale of figuring out the SORBS interface? I'm told by various mailserver that sorbs is blocking me (including this list hence mailing from my gmail account). When I log on to sorbs, give my details I get a nice email back saying: $Id: Act.pm,v 1.16 2006/11/27 03

Re: SORBS

2010-04-20 Thread corpus.defero
On Tue, 2010-04-20 at 14:04 +0100, Nigel Frankcom wrote: Hi All, Am I the only one incabale of figuring out the SORBS interface? I'm told by various mailserver that sorbs is blocking me (including this list hence mailing from my gmail account). When I log on to sorbs, give my details I

Re: SORBS

2010-04-20 Thread Nigel Frankcom
On 20 April 2010 14:13, corpus.defero corpus.def...@idnet.com wrote: On Tue, 2010-04-20 at 14:04 +0100, Nigel Frankcom wrote: Hi All, Am I the only one incabale of figuring out the SORBS interface? I'm told by various mailserver that sorbs is blocking me (including this list hence mailing

Re: SORBS

2010-04-20 Thread Benny Pedersen
On tir 20 apr 2010 15:04:53 CEST, Nigel Frankcom wrote If anyone has any ideas - please let me know? if your isp give you dul ip, then you must use isp smtp servers as relay not a fault of sorbs some isp is badly informing users on howto if you really want to use you ip as server make sure

Re: SORBS

2010-04-20 Thread John Rudd
Are you the ISP for the IP address, or the client/user? According to SORBS, requests for removal from the DUHL should come from the ISP that owns the IP space, not the end user that rents it. See: http://www.au.sorbs.net/faq/dul.shtml End users (non ISP staff): SORBS support staff may ask you

RE: SORBS

2010-04-20 Thread Gary Smith
if your isp give you dul ip, then you must use isp smtp servers as relay This ins't necessarily true. I've had to deal with this ever time I've changed hosts (to include Level 3 static IP assignments). Some ISP's just don't publish their ranges as all static. not a fault of sorbs some isp

Re: SORBS

2010-04-20 Thread Bret Miller
On 4/20/2010 8:10 AM, John Rudd wrote: Are you the ISP for the IP address, or the client/user? According to SORBS, requests for removal from the DUHL should come from the ISP that owns the IP space, not the end user that rents it. See: http://www.au.sorbs.net/faq/dul.shtml End users (non ISP

Re: SORBS

2010-04-20 Thread Benny Pedersen
On tir 20 apr 2010 18:00:23 CEST, Bret Miller wrote them as an organization. You need your email to be delivered reliably to everyone on the internet and that's the only way it's going to happen. not correct, hotmail gmail yahoo works without isp dependice, why care ? -- xpoint

Re: SORBS

2010-04-20 Thread Bret Miller
dependice, why care ? It doesn't effect all destinations, but it affects thousands of companies who use SpamAssassin to filter their email. And it affects some who use SORBS DUL to reject email outright. To me that's outright crazy, but I support a small non-profit company and my opinion

Re: SORBS

2010-04-20 Thread John Hardin
On Tue, 20 Apr 2010, Benny Pedersen wrote: On tir 20 apr 2010 18:00:23 CEST, Bret Miller wrote them as an organization. You need your email to be delivered reliably to everyone on the internet and that's the only way it's going to happen. not correct, hotmail gmail yahoo works without isp

Re: SORBS

2010-04-20 Thread Benny Pedersen
ranges changes to static ? Are you saying that freemail services or ISP-provided mail accounts are all anyone needs? in a perfekt world yes this thread here flames sorbs for listning dul ranges and users dont understand what it means :( flames should really go to isps selling over prissed

Re: SORBS

2010-04-20 Thread Nigel Frankcom
? if your isp give you dul ip, then you must use isp smtp servers as relay not a fault of sorbs some isp is badly informing users on howto if you really want to use you ip as server make sure it relly is allowed from your isp, the report from sorbs says me its not a static ip ps: if you need

Re: SORBS

2010-04-20 Thread Nigel Frankcom
be bothered to properly manage it? manage what ?, dynamic ip ranges changes to static ? Are you saying that freemail services or ISP-provided mail accounts are all anyone needs? in a perfekt world yes this thread here flames sorbs for listning dul ranges and users dont understand what

Re: SORBS

2010-04-20 Thread Benny Pedersen
static to me :) its still your isp that should talk to sorbs but okay reverse dns is not things that make it worse -- xpoint http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html

Re: SORBS

2010-04-20 Thread RW
On Tue, 20 Apr 2010 18:17:10 +0100 Nigel Frankcom n.frank...@gmail.com wrote: My IP has full rDNS supplied by my ISP - please feel free to ping -a 217.36.54.209 and tell me what exactly is wrong wit that? $ dig +short -x 217.36.54.20 host217-36-54-20.in-addr.btopenworld.com. This is the kind

Re: SORBS

2010-04-20 Thread Benny Pedersen
On tir 20 apr 2010 19:29:47 CEST, RW wrote To get out of DUL lists you ideally want something like mail.example.com or at very least the word static in the rdns. blame isp assigning dul users in static pools -- xpoint http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html

Re: SORBS

2010-04-20 Thread David Morton
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 4/20/10 12:29 PM, RW wrote: On Tue, 20 Apr 2010 18:17:10 +0100 Nigel Frankcom n.frank...@gmail.com wrote: My IP has full rDNS supplied by my ISP - please feel free to ping -a 217.36.54.209 and tell me what exactly is wrong wit that? $ dig

Re: SORBS

2010-04-20 Thread Nigel Frankcom
=simplefull_query_string=searchtext=217.36.54.209do_search=Search seems static to me :) its still your isp that should talk to sorbs but okay reverse dns is not things that make it worse -- xpoint http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html Thanks for that info. It apparently disagrees with mine

Re: SORBS

2010-04-20 Thread John Rudd
Having full rDNS isn't the issue. What probably happened was something like this: 1) your ISP reported their dynamic addresses to SORBS, or SORBS inferred them via various means. 2) SORBS listed those addresses in DUL 3) Your ISP ran low on static addresses, and allocated to you one

RE: SORBS

2010-04-20 Thread R-Elists
Having full rDNS isn't the issue. What probably happened was something like this: 1) your ISP reported their dynamic addresses to SORBS, or SORBS inferred them via various means. 2) SORBS listed those addresses in DUL 3) Your ISP ran low on static addresses, and allocated

RE: SORBS

2010-04-20 Thread corpus.defero
On Tue, 2010-04-20 at 11:34 -0700, R-Elists wrote: Having full rDNS isn't the issue. What probably happened was something like this: 1) your ISP reported their dynamic addresses to SORBS, or SORBS inferred them via various means. 2) SORBS listed those addresses in DUL

Re: SORBS

2010-04-20 Thread n . frankcom
On Tue, 20 Apr 2010 11:26:27 -0700, John Rudd jr...@ucsc.edu wrote: Having full rDNS isn't the issue. What probably happened was something like this: 1) your ISP reported their dynamic addresses to SORBS, or SORBS inferred them via various means. 2) SORBS listed those addresses in DUL 3) Your

Re: SORBS

2010-04-20 Thread jdow
From: RW rwmailli...@googlemail.com Sent: Tuesday, 2010/April/20 10:29 On Tue, 20 Apr 2010 18:17:10 +0100 Nigel Frankcom n.frank...@gmail.com wrote: My IP has full rDNS supplied by my ISP - please feel free to ping -a 217.36.54.209 and tell me what exactly is wrong wit that? $ dig +short

Re: SORBS

2010-04-20 Thread Noel Butler
incabale of figuring out the SORBS interface? I'm told by various mailserver that sorbs is blocking me (including this list hence mailing from my gmail account). When I log on to sorbs, give my details I get a nice email back saying: $Id: Act.pm,v 1.16 2006/11/27 03:36:09 lem Exp $ I'm

Re: SORBS

2010-04-20 Thread Michelle Konzack
server or get rDNS set to indicate static assignment. ^ Since my ISP mixup static and dynamic too, I was listet too, but they immediately deliste on requst since I have a static IP with rDNS. Even if SORBS is a braindamaged service

SORBS worth AU$1.2m

2009-07-02 Thread Anthony Peacock
http://www.australianit.news.com.au/story/0,27574,25708610-15306,00.html -- Anthony Peacock CHIME, UCL Medical School WWW:http://www.chime.ucl.ac.uk/~rmhiajp/ Study Health Informatics - Modular Postgraduate Degree http://www.chime.ucl.ac.uk/study-health-informatics/

Re: SORBS worth AU$1.2m

2009-07-02 Thread rich...@buzzhost.co.uk
On Thu, 2009-07-02 at 14:40 +0100, Anthony Peacock wrote: http://www.australianit.news.com.au/story/0,27574,25708610-15306,00.html Is that to a Spam Cartel? It's overpriced :-)

Re: SORBS worth AU$1.2m

2009-07-02 Thread Anthony Peacock
rich...@buzzhost.co.uk wrote: On Thu, 2009-07-02 at 14:40 +0100, Anthony Peacock wrote: http://www.australianit.news.com.au/story/0,27574,25708610-15306,00.html Is that to a Spam Cartel? It's overpriced :-) Well the article states Ms Sullivan said the highest legitimate offer was about

Re: SORBS bites the dust

2009-07-01 Thread J.D. Falk
Arvid Picciani wrote: Michael Grant wrote: Unless I've missed a message... this is the 100th reply to this thread. This has to be one of the longest threads I've seen on this list in years. Shows there is much to discuss on this matter. Isn't there a generic spam related mailing list? There

RE: SORBS bites the dust

2009-07-01 Thread Cory Hawkless
Any examples of such active lists? I suspect a few of us would be interested. -Original Message- From: J.D. Falk [mailto:jdfalk-li...@cybernothing.org] Sent: Thursday, 2 July 2009 4:54 AM To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Re: SORBS bites the dust Arvid Picciani wrote: Michael

Re: SORBS bites the dust

2009-06-27 Thread rich...@buzzhost.co.uk
On Fri, 2009-06-26 at 21:06 -0400, Charles Gregory wrote: On Fri, 26 Jun 2009, LuKreme wrote: See, it all comes down to what you think 'legitimate' is. The recipient wants the e-mail. DUH. That's not my definition at all The very reason for my posting. You need not repeat yourself.

Re: SORBS bites the dust

2009-06-27 Thread Michael Grant
Unless I've missed a message... this is the 100th reply to this thread. This has to be one of the longest threads I've seen on this list in years. I have to say I have issues with your definition of legit mail. Many people do send mail to other people out of the blue for legit reasons other

Re: SORBS bites the dust

2009-06-27 Thread Arvid Picciani
Michael Grant wrote: Unless I've missed a message... this is the 100th reply to this thread. This has to be one of the longest threads I've seen on this list in years. Shows there is much to discuss on this matter. Isn't there a generic spam related mailing list?

Re: SORBS bites the dust

2009-06-27 Thread Yet Another Ninja
On 6/27/2009 10:55 AM, Arvid Picciani wrote: Michael Grant wrote: Unless I've missed a message... this is the 100th reply to this thread. This has to be one of the longest threads I've seen on this list in years. Shows there is much to discuss on this matter. Isn't there a generic spam

Re: SORBS bites the dust

2009-06-27 Thread rich...@buzzhost.co.uk
On Sat, 2009-06-27 at 10:59 +0200, Yet Another Ninja wrote: On 6/27/2009 10:55 AM, Arvid Picciani wrote: Michael Grant wrote: Unless I've missed a message... this is the 100th reply to this thread. This has to be one of the longest threads I've seen on this list in years. Shows

Re: SORBS bites the dust

2009-06-26 Thread Jack Pepper
Quoting LuKreme krem...@kreme.com: On 25-Jun-2009, at 16:01, John Rudd wrote: People who complain that the PBL is blocking things that aren't spam kind of don't get the point of the PBL. The PBL's definition means that it will block non-spam. It should also block a lot of spam, but the fact

Re: SORBS bites the dust

2009-06-26 Thread Yet Another Ninja
On 6/26/2009 4:07 PM, Jack Pepper wrote: Quoting LuKreme krem...@kreme.com: On 25-Jun-2009, at 16:01, John Rudd wrote: People who complain that the PBL is blocking things that aren't spam kind of don't get the point of the PBL. The PBL's definition means that it will block non-spam. It

Re: SORBS bites the dust

2009-06-26 Thread Yet Another Ninja
On 6/26/2009 4:18 PM, Charles Gregory wrote: These people are not without 'other solutions'. But they are making the best of a bad one. Is this enough to warrant down-scoring the PBL? I no longer think so. But just so we're clear, just because an ISP says that they have a 'policy' does not

Re: SORBS bites the dust

2009-06-26 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On Thu, 25 Jun 2009, LuKreme wrote: If only more people understood this. Thanks for the post John, you summarized it very well. If anyone ever whines about the PBL again, please repost. On 26.06.09 10:18, Charles Gregory wrote: Firstly, my thanks to all who commented. Based upon the

Re: SORBS bites the dust

2009-06-26 Thread Charles Gregory
On Fri, 26 Jun 2009, Yet Another Ninja wrote: what you do is your choice. (nod) I've already made my choice clear, and would advocate the same for anyone else. My argument was only that we should not create a false sense of confidence that we will 'never' see legitimate mail come from a

Re: SORBS bites the dust

2009-06-26 Thread Charles Gregory
On Fri, 26 Jun 2009, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: Imho, the important question is, why such home user wants to send large amounts of mail Keep in mind, the definition of 'large' may be arbitrarily SMALL for some ISP's Maybe just 100 recipients. if (s)he can't find any (free)

Re: SORBS bites the dust

2009-06-26 Thread Arvid Picciani
Charles Gregory wrote: There are always exceptions. Those can send me (postmaster@) a mail (without beeing blocked) asking for whitelisting. The reject message contains a link explaining how to do that.

Re: SORBS bites the dust

2009-06-26 Thread LuKreme
On 26-Jun-2009, at 08:18, Charles Gregory wrote: On Thu, 25 Jun 2009, LuKreme wrote: If only more people understood this. Thanks for the post John, you summarized it very well. If anyone ever whines about the PBL again, please repost. Firstly, my thanks to all who commented. Based upon

Re: SORBS bites the dust

2009-06-26 Thread LuKreme
On 26-Jun-2009, at 08:55, Charles Gregory wrote: we should not create a false sense of confidence that we will 'never' see legitimate mail come from a PBL-listed IP Yes, we will *never* see legitimate mail from a PBL-listed IP. See, it all comes down to what you think 'legitimate' is.

Re: SORBS bites the dust

2009-06-26 Thread Charles Gregory
On Fri, 26 Jun 2009, LuKreme wrote: On 26-Jun-2009, at 08:55, Charles Gregory wrote: we should not create a false sense of confidence that we will 'never' see legitimate mail come from a PBL-listed IP Yes, we will *never* see legitimate mail from a PBL-listed IP. See, it all comes down to what

Re: SORBS bites the dust

2009-06-26 Thread LuKreme
On 26-Jun-2009, at 14:54, Charles Gregory wrote: On Fri, 26 Jun 2009, LuKreme wrote: On 26-Jun-2009, at 08:55, Charles Gregory wrote: we should not create a false sense of confidence that we will 'never' see legitimate mail come from a PBL-listed IP Yes, we will *never* see legitimate mail

Re: SORBS bites the dust

2009-06-26 Thread RW
On Fri, 26 Jun 2009 16:23:22 -0600 LuKreme krem...@kreme.com wrote: That's not my definition at all; it's not even the definition of any mailadmin I've ever met. We reject mail users *want* all the time. It's our job. ... Just because the recipient WANTS it does not make it

Re: SORBS bites the dust

2009-06-26 Thread John Rudd
On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 15:23, LuKremekrem...@kreme.com wrote: On 26-Jun-2009, at 14:54, Charles Gregory wrote: I don't care. It's the *meaning* that matters. Not the *word*. Fine, then, the meaning. Your meaning is *wanted* and my meaning is mail from a verifiable source with a verifiable

Re: SORBS bites the dust

2009-06-26 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2009-06-25 08:56:00, schrieb Matus UHLAR - fantomas: Why not? I do that and intentionally - I don't like receiving spam from companies that don't accept complaints... Hihi... [ '/etc/courier/bofh' ]- badfrom @hotmail.com badfrom @hotmail.de

Re: SORBS bites the dust

2009-06-26 Thread Charles Gregory
On Fri, 26 Jun 2009, LuKreme wrote: See, it all comes down to what you think 'legitimate' is. The recipient wants the e-mail. DUH. That's not my definition at all The very reason for my posting. You need not repeat yourself. . it's not even the definition of any mailadmin I've ever

Re: SORBS bites the dust

2009-06-26 Thread Charles Gregory
On Fri, 26 Jun 2009, John Rudd wrote: It sounds like Charles' user base and cost/benefit analysis is different, and that's fine. Actually no, it's not. I arrive at the same cost/benefit analysis and have instituted the same general policy - I block all hosts on PBL. Thought I made that part

Re: SORBS bites the dust

2009-06-25 Thread rich...@buzzhost.co.uk
on how to do it... I have to agree with Mouss here. I've not tried with Sorbs but I used to get a ton of calls at Barracuda because people had ended up on their 'reputation' list. Charming calls in fact, often describe sexual acts my mother was alleged to perform in the vicinity of the devil

Re: SORBS bites the dust

2009-06-25 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On Wed, June 24, 2009 13:59, Per Jessen wrote: Blacklisting a large and serious hosting provider is just not serious and very bad for business. Benny Pedersen wrote: http://rfc-ignorant.org/tools/lookup.php?domain=yahoo.com http://rfc-ignorant.org/tools/lookup.php?domain=hotmail.com

Re: SORBS bites the dust

2009-06-25 Thread Res
On Thu, 25 Jun 2009, rich...@buzzhost.co.uk wrote: Personally I have mixed views on charging for delisting. In some instances it would be appropriate and I would not dismiss it out of hand. Certainly for repeat offenders I think it would be highly desirable. Agreed, its one wya to make the

Re: SORBS bites the dust

2009-06-25 Thread rich...@buzzhost.co.uk
On Thu, 2009-06-25 at 17:41 +1000, Res wrote: if you jump on a bandwagon without first hand experience, thats *exactly* what you are, if you had experienced it first hand of course you become an authority on the subject in your your case, and your opinion matters as factual, but you by your

Re: SORBS bites the dust

2009-06-25 Thread Res
On Thu, 25 Jun 2009, rich...@buzzhost.co.uk wrote: On Thu, 2009-06-25 at 17:41 +1000, Res wrote: if you jump on a bandwagon without first hand experience, thats *exactly* what you are, if you had experienced it first hand of course you become an authority on the subject in your your case, and

Re: SORBS bites the dust

2009-06-25 Thread rich...@buzzhost.co.uk
On Thu, 2009-06-25 at 18:24 +1000, Res wrote: On Thu, 25 Jun 2009, rich...@buzzhost.co.uk wrote: On Thu, 2009-06-25 at 17:41 +1000, Res wrote: if you jump on a bandwagon without first hand experience, thats *exactly* what you are, if you had experienced it first hand of course you

Re: SORBS bites the dust

2009-06-25 Thread Per Jessen
rich...@buzzhost.co.uk wrote: On Wed, 2009-06-24 at 19:00 +0200, Per Jessen wrote: Benny Pedersen wrote: 2) I didn't include free email providers in my list of large and serious hosting providers - I was thinking more of organisations such as 1and1, hetzner, rackspace etc. etc. My

Re: SORBS bites the dust

2009-06-25 Thread Per Jessen
Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: On Wed, June 24, 2009 13:59, Per Jessen wrote: 3) I wouldn't refer to rfc-ignorant as a blacklist - nobody with half a brain would block email just because of RFC ignorance on the part of the sender. Why not? I do that and intentionally - I don't like

Re: SORBS bites the dust

2009-06-25 Thread Per Jessen
Arvid Picciani wrote: serious hosting providers - I was thinking more of organisations such as 1and1, hetzner, rackspace etc. etc. whats the issue with hetzner? I'm a customer so i'd be very interested in any spam issue not beeing processed by them. There is no issue with Hetzner. Read

Re: SORBS bites the dust

2009-06-25 Thread rich...@buzzhost.co.uk
On Thu, 2009-06-25 at 11:39 +0200, Per Jessen wrote: rich...@buzzhost.co.uk wrote: On Wed, 2009-06-24 at 19:00 +0200, Per Jessen wrote: Benny Pedersen wrote: 2) I didn't include free email providers in my list of large and serious hosting providers - I was thinking more of

Re: SORBS bites the dust

2009-06-25 Thread Per Jessen
rich...@buzzhost.co.uk wrote: On Thu, 2009-06-25 at 11:39 +0200, Per Jessen wrote: rich...@buzzhost.co.uk wrote: On Wed, 2009-06-24 at 19:00 +0200, Per Jessen wrote: Benny Pedersen wrote: 2) I didn't include free email providers in my list of large and serious hosting providers - I

Re: SORBS bites the dust

2009-06-25 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: On Wed, June 24, 2009 13:59, Per Jessen wrote: 3) I wouldn't refer to rfc-ignorant as a blacklist - nobody with half a brain would block email just because of RFC ignorance on the part of the sender. Why not? I do that and intentionally - I don't

Re: SORBS bites the dust

2009-06-25 Thread LuKreme
On 25-Jun-2009, at 03:55, rich...@buzzhost.co.uk wrote: On Thu, 2009-06-25 at 11:39 +0200, Per Jessen wrote: rich...@buzzhost.co.uk wrote: On Wed, 2009-06-24 at 19:00 +0200, Per Jessen wrote: Benny Pedersen wrote: 2) I didn't include free email providers in my list of large and serious

Re: SORBS bites the dust

2009-06-25 Thread Yet Another Ninja
Could this thread be moved to spam-l ? Seems it has little to do with SA

Re: SORBS bites the dust

2009-06-25 Thread Res
On Thu, 25 Jun 2009, rich...@buzzhost.co.uk wrote: 1. It's 'You're' a joke - not 'your' a joke Ah the classic sign of someone in defeat, has to nit pick someones grammer 2. You could always try setting up your Mickey Mouse 'blocked using dnsbl.lan' restriction so it works properly LOL.

Re: SORBS bites the dust

2009-06-25 Thread Jack Pepper
How long will this go before Godwin's law finally kicks in? Now I'm just watching for the fun of it . Quoting Res r...@ausics.net: On Thu, 25 Jun 2009, rich...@buzzhost.co.uk wrote: 1. It's 'You're' a joke - not 'your' a joke Ah the classic sign of someone in defeat, has to nit pick

Re: SORBS bites the dust

2009-06-25 Thread Benny Pedersen
On Thu, June 25, 2009 15:08, Res wrote: On Thu, 25 Jun 2009, rich...@buzzhost.co.uk wrote: Actually, you were first blocked by a milter because your SPF record contains junk get someone with a clue to set it up for you http://old.openspf.org/wizard.html?mydomain=buzzhost.co.uksubmit=Go!

Re: SORBS bites the dust

2009-06-25 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 25.06.09 12:38, Yet Another Ninja wrote: Could this thread be moved to spam-l ? Seems it has little to do with SA spam-l was closed iirc ;-) -- Matus UHLAR - fantomas, uh...@fantomas.sk ; http://www.fantomas.sk/ Warning: I wish NOT to receive e-mail advertising to this address. Varovanie:

Re: SORBS bites the dust

2009-06-25 Thread DAve
Jack Pepper wrote: How long will this go before Godwin's law finally kicks in? Now I'm just watching for the fun of it . Yea, this is why when my bosses ask where I get my information I tell them from a closed forum. If they read the adolescent ramblings that got posted on email/spam

Re: SORBS bites the dust

2009-06-25 Thread Yet Another Ninja
On 6/25/2009 4:12 PM, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: On 25.06.09 12:38, Yet Another Ninja wrote: Could this thread be moved to spam-l ? Seems it has little to do with SA spam-l was closed iirc ;-) yes and no it was taken over and its nice busy http://spam-l.com/mailman/listinfo

Re: SORBS bites the dust

2009-06-25 Thread Arvid Picciani
Jack Pepper wrote: How long will this go before Godwin's law finally kicks in? It already did. 1. It's 'You're' a joke - not 'your' a joke Now I'm just watching for the fun of it Try IRC :-P

Re: SORBS bites the dust

2009-06-25 Thread J.D. Falk
DAve wrote: Jack Pepper wrote: How long will this go before Godwin's law finally kicks in? Now I'm just watching for the fun of it . Yea, this is why when my bosses ask where I get my information I tell them from a closed forum. If they read the adolescent ramblings that got posted on

Re: SORBS bites the dust

2009-06-25 Thread John Rudd
On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 14:41, moussmo...@ml.netoyen.net wrote: James Wilkinson a écrit : If you mean “IP address that should not have been in the PBL but was”, that’s one thing. It’s a consistent definition, but not very useful for stopping spam. yes, the PBL may list blocks that contain

Re: SORBS bites the dust

2009-06-25 Thread mouss
James Wilkinson a écrit : mouss wrote (about the PBL): stop spreading FUD. if you know of false positives, show us so that we see what you exactly mean. a lot of people, including $self, use the PBL at smtp time. As usual, it depends on your definition of “false positive”. fully agreed.

Re: SORBS bites the dust

2009-06-25 Thread jdow
From: Res r...@ausics.net Sent: Thursday, 2009/June/25 06:08 On Thu, 25 Jun 2009, rich...@buzzhost.co.uk wrote: 3. The day I give a shit about what an Australian spammer thinks of me, will be the day hell freezes over. oh im a spammer now am I, awww poor widdle wicky, go cry to mummy, or

Re: SORBS bites the dust

2009-06-25 Thread LuKreme
On 25-Jun-2009, at 07:08, Res wrote: On Thu, 25 Jun 2009, rich...@buzzhost.co.uk wrote: 1. It's 'You're' a joke - not 'your' a joke Ah the classic sign of someone in defeat, has to nit pick someones grammer NB: it's spelt grammar -- There is a tragic flaw in our precious Constitution,

Re: SORBS bites the dust

2009-06-25 Thread LuKreme
On 25-Jun-2009, at 15:41, mouss wrote: if you say, I will only block those who I am certain are criminals, then some criminals will get in. s/some/almost all/ -- Battlemage? That's not a profession. It barely qualifies as a hobby. 'Battlemage' is about impressive a title as 'Lord of

Re: SORBS bites the dust

2009-06-25 Thread LuKreme
On 25-Jun-2009, at 16:01, John Rudd wrote: People who complain that the PBL is blocking things that aren't spam kind of don't get the point of the PBL. The PBL's definition means that it will block non-spam. It should also block a lot of spam, but the fact that it will block ham is not an

Re: SORBS bites the dust

2009-06-25 Thread Res
On Thu, 25 Jun 2009, LuKreme wrote: On 25-Jun-2009, at 07:08, Res wrote: On Thu, 25 Jun 2009, rich...@buzzhost.co.uk wrote: 1. It's 'You're' a joke - not 'your' a joke Ah the classic sign of someone in defeat, has to nit pick someones grammer NB: it's spelt grammar yyyaan

Re: SORBS bites the dust

2009-06-24 Thread Henrik K
On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 02:34:05PM -0400, Charles Gregory wrote: On Tue, 23 Jun 2009, mouss wrote: When I did my research for setting up RBL's, I found old comparisons between RBL's that seemed to indicate that the spamhaus PBL and the spamcop lists had slightly higher levels of flase

Re: SORBS bites the dust

2009-06-24 Thread rich...@buzzhost.co.uk
evidence, show it. if not, stop spreading rumours. I have delisted an IP in the past, and I have been watching people trying to delist a block but without clues on how to do it... I have to agree with Mouss here. I've not tried with Sorbs but I used to get a ton of calls at Barracuda because

Re: SORBS bites the dust

2009-06-24 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
# n=0 n=1 n=2 n=3 50_scores.cf:score RCVD_IN_SORBS_SOCKS 0 0.182 0 0.801 # n=0 n=2 50_scores.cf:score RCVD_IN_SORBS_WEB 0 1.117 0 0.619 # n=0 n=2 50_scores.cf:score RCVD_IN_SORBS_ZOMBIE 0 # n=0 n=1 n=2 n=3 On 23.06.09 14:50, Rosenbaum, Larry M. wrote: Notice that the SORBS spam sources list

Re: SORBS bites the dust

2009-06-24 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
IPs are dynamic etc. The same applies for sorbs dul ... I found *some* stats at http://stats.dnsbl.com which would seem to suggest that the spamcop database is now very accurate. Though I am somewhat hesitant to use spamcop as our own servers once had a brief listing with them

Re: SORBS bites the dust

2009-06-24 Thread Per Jessen
rich...@buzzhost.co.uk wrote: Some U.K. providers (such as Fasthosts Rackspace(UK)) never seem to get a listing for any of their ranges - which is interesting when you consider they are probably the largest providers of hosting in the UK and that Spamhaus hosts with one of them.

Re: SORBS bites the dust

2009-06-24 Thread Benny Pedersen
On Wed, June 24, 2009 13:59, Per Jessen wrote: Blacklisting a large and serious hosting provider is just not serious and very bad for business. http://rfc-ignorant.org/tools/lookup.php?domain=yahoo.com http://rfc-ignorant.org/tools/lookup.php?domain=hotmail.com

Re: [sa] Re: SORBS bites the dust

2009-06-24 Thread Charles Gregory
On Wed, 24 Jun 2009, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: somewhat hesitant to use spamcop as our own servers once had a brief listing with them (and it wasn't due to spam). Got more info? Sadly, we're dealing with my aging memory. :) While I cannot remember precisely, categorically it was a

Re: SORBS bites the dust

2009-06-24 Thread Per Jessen
Benny Pedersen wrote: On Wed, June 24, 2009 13:59, Per Jessen wrote: Blacklisting a large and serious hosting provider is just not serious and very bad for business. http://rfc-ignorant.org/tools/lookup.php?domain=yahoo.com http://rfc-ignorant.org/tools/lookup.php?domain=hotmail.com

Re: SORBS bites the dust

2009-06-24 Thread rich...@buzzhost.co.uk
On Wed, 2009-06-24 at 19:00 +0200, Per Jessen wrote: Benny Pedersen wrote: 2) I didn't include free email providers in my list of large and serious hosting providers - I was thinking more of organisations such as 1and1, hetzner, rackspace etc. etc. My special award goes to 1and1. I get *so

Re: SORBS bites the dust

2009-06-24 Thread Arvid Picciani
serious hosting providers - I was thinking more of organisations such as 1and1, hetzner, rackspace etc. etc. whats the issue with hetzner? I'm a customer so i'd be very interested in any spam issue not beeing processed by them.

Re: SORBS bites the dust

2009-06-24 Thread James Wilkinson
mouss wrote (about the PBL): stop spreading FUD. if you know of false positives, show us so that we see what you exactly mean. a lot of people, including $self, use the PBL at smtp time. As usual, it depends on your definition of “false positive”. If you mean “IP address that should not

Re: [sa] Re: SORBS bites the dust

2009-06-24 Thread mouss
Charles Gregory a écrit : On Wed, 24 Jun 2009, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: somewhat hesitant to use spamcop as our own servers once had a brief listing with them (and it wasn't due to spam). Got more info? Sadly, we're dealing with my aging memory. :) While I cannot remember precisely,

Re: SORBS bites the dust

2009-06-24 Thread Res
. I've not tried with Sorbs but I used to get a ton of calls at Barracuda because people had ended up on their 'reputation' list. Charming calls in fact, often describe sexual acts my mother was alleged to perform in the vicinity of the devil. You agree with him but have never had to do it? Thats

Re: SORBS bites the dust

2009-06-23 Thread Per Jessen
, SORBS does 30billion queries per day). /Per Jessen, Zürich

Re: SORBS bites the dust

2009-06-23 Thread Jeremy Morton
Res wrote: On Mon, 22 Jun 2009, John Rudd wrote: You can wait 1 year ... or pay $50 to some approved charity. So, yes, you can not pay anything, if you're willing to wait a year. And if you do pay, you don't pay THEM exactly. But, it still remains that they expect some form of financial offset

Re: SORBS bites the dust

2009-06-23 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On Mon, 22 Jun 2009, Arvid Picciani wrote: rich...@buzzhost.co.uk wrote: It comes with great sadness that I have to announce the imminent closure of SORBS. crap ... sorbs is the only list I trust enough to have them at SMTP level. On 22.06.09 13:54, Charles Gregory wrote: In the past, I

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