From Global Homes Webmaster, received 18/11/02, 5:30 pm -0800 (GMT):
The spamhaus.org and SPEWS lists are included in the relays.osirusoft.com list, which also includes a good open relay list, dial-up ranges and open proxies.
Although there might be a little extra benefit in referencing the sbl.spamhaus.org zone directly as, although it's included in relays.osirusoft.com, the sbl.spamhaus.org zone is rebuilt every hour whereas the zone is only imported into relays.osirusoft.com every 8 hours or so. That time window is fairly important because the SBL does a lot of fast listings and de-listings 24/7 as soon as new spam sources are identified. The SBL team is American, British (me :-) and Dutch, so there's nearly always one or more people doing SBL updates round the clock. Also, we don't just like to list fast, we like to de-list fast, usually immediately on getting a positive response from the ISP, because the reaction we get from ISPs is always "wow, that was fast!" and makes them realize we're working with them, not against them, and that ISP will remember the treatment he got from us when he considers using a DNSBL to protect his own customers from spam. This kind of gets hampered when the ISP contacts us 7 hours later to say "hey, that server is still blocked, you commie-nazis!"
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