> 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 postives.
>> stop spreading FUD. if you know of false positives, show us so that we
>> see what you exactly mean.

On 23.06.09 14:34, Charles Gregory wrote:
> It's difficult to find current data. The original document I found,  
> somewhere among old spamassassin wiki/forum files, was a decent 
> comparison of the percentage FP's and FN's for many blocklists, but do 
> you think I can find it now? :)

The only FPs in PBL are IP addresses that don't really fullfill requirement
that they should not send mail. E.g. mail that is not dynamic and ISP agrees
it may send mail to destinations.

I think that in case of "yes you want mail from them" should not be called
a FP when those 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 (and it wasn't due to spam).

Got more info?

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