OT: Spamcop BL - good or dangerous?

[DAve]

Matt Kettler wrote:
> DAve wrote:
> 
>> I saw the announcement around the 15th.
>>
>> http://www.spamhaus.org/zen/
>>
>> "ZEN is the combination of all Spamhaus DNSBLs into one single powerful
>> and comprehensive blocklist to make querying faster and simpler. It
>> contains the SBL, the XBL and the new PBL blocklist."
>>
>> I don't recall seeing the PBL notice on http://www.spamhaus.org/pbl the
>> day I turned it up. Using ZEN certainly raised my block rate over using
>> only sbl-xbl, mrtg shows the improvement.
> 
> 
> Interesting.. I use zen too, but I actually break it out by return code. Thus
> far, I've not seen anything match the new PBL part of the zone.
> 
> Spamhaus SBL  (127.0.0.2)
>    2190
> Spamhaus XBL CBL (127.0.0.4)
>   10143
> Spamhaus XBL NJABL (127.0.0.5)
>      81
> SPAMHAUS XBL OTHER (127.0.0.6-8)
>       0
> SPAMHAUS PBL (127.0.0.11)
>       0
> 
> And yes, the lists are applied in that order, so it is possible every PBL
> listing was in SBL, or XBL. However, I think your increase in  hits since
> switching to zen probably has more to do with changes in the existing zones.
> 
> 

And as always, spam evolves constantly. So it could be nothing more than 
the email landscape shifted the weekend I made the change. But hey, I 
ain't complaining.

DAve


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