[Gslug-general] Favourite DNSBLs?

[Jarod Wilson]

On Jan 15, 2008, at 1:55 AM, Chuck Wolber wrote:

> On Mon, 14 Jan 2008, Brian Hatch wrote:
>
>> Mayhap it's time to revisit my DNSBL entries.

Personally, I don't use DNSBL's for outright blocking, but rather from  
within spamassassin, which adds to the score of an email if its found  
on a DNSBL. It at least gives non-spam from an address that somehow  
wound up on a DNSBL a chance of getting through, since the DNSBL score  
alone generally isn't enough for the message to wind up in purgatory  
(aka maia mailguard's spam cache, in my case).

(That reminds me, some stupid list has my static IP, fiber optic,  
business service data connection on a dynamic IP block list...)

>> Anyone have recomendations about which DNSBLs they use these days?
>
> The following DNSBL entries combined, block about 20% of the spam  
> coming
> into our mail servers. We've been using them for over year now  
> without any
> problems.
>
> sbl-xbl.spamhaus.org
> korea.services.net
> bl.spamcop.net
> psbl.surriel.com

I believe I'm checking all of the above, save korea.services.net. And  
if you run into any issues with psbl.surriel.com, just let me know,  
and I'll run down the hall and thwack Rik... :)

(psbl.surriel.com is run by Red Hat's own Rik van Riel, who works in  
the same office as me)

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Jarod Wilson
jarod at wilsonet.com