Infinite Monkeys and other BLs {Scanned}

[Eagle Net Support]

> Make sure you have the "sbl-xbl.spamhaus.org." list defined in there if you
> want to use that. It's a very good list and catches a *lot* of spam.

It looks like two parts to that entry

should it be

sbl-xbl.spamhaus.org            XXXXsomthing

or

XXXXXsomthing            sbl-xbl.spamhaus.org

also what is the something entry?

thanks
joe


Julian Field wrote:

> At 15:56 17/03/2004, you wrote:
> >I've received a call this morning from someone who is concerned that
> >Infinite Monkeys is blocking DNS illegitimately - and that IM is no longer
> >providing a real black list (supposedly they shut down last September).
> >
> >Should the reference for IM remain in my spam.lists.conf?
>
> The spam.lists.conf file is nothing more than a list of definitions. It's
> what you put in your "Spam List" setting in MailScanner.conf that lists
> what definitions you actually use. So it is quite harmless to put anything
> you like in spam.lists.conf.
>
> >If not, why was it that the version I used of MailScanner for my servers
> >from last November still have IM mentioned in the spam.lists.conf?  I would
> >have figured 2 months after the site shut down that MailScanner would have
> >been updated to reflect that.
> >
> >Are there any resources for other DNS BLs I may want to update the
> >spam.list.conf file with?
>



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