Tips on how to use ruleset for 'Spam Lists To Be Spam'

[Kai Schaetzl]

Dnsadmin 1bigthink.com wrote on Tue, 08 Aug 2006 10:43:59 -0400:

> They are good, long-used and trusted BLs. 
>  
> Spam List = SBL+XBL SPEWS ORDB-RBL spamcop.net spamhaus.org 
> spamhaus-XBL SORBS-S 
> PAM SORBS-ZOMBIE SORBS-HTTP DSBL SORBS-DNSBL SORBS-SMTP SORBS-WEB 
> SORBS-BLOCK NJ 
> ABL

long-trusted, reliable? And you use Spews? That's a contradiction. Also, 
it seems to me that you are duplicating RBLs. Inform yourself what these 
lists actually contain. You'll see that some of them are already part of 
others you use. Also, honestly, using umpteen lists doesn't give you any 
advantage over a few *really* carefully chosen ones. They are just 
duplicating their results. You gain something like 1% more accuracy with 
5fold more ressource usage.

> How can I set up a ruleset like this for individual users or 
> individual domains? 
> #Spam Lists To Be Spam = /etc/MailScanner/spam.lists.count

I don't see how this would help you much. Why don't you whitelist those 
users? You apparently know them, so ... Or just whitelist those servers, 
I'm not aware that they are a source for much spam, they don't appear in 
my logs.


Kai

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