MS Hanging

[Julian Field]

That's what I do here, with no complaints from very fussy academic users.

Mikael Syska wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Little off-topic ....
>
> Caching dns would also lower the traffic ... or am I wrong here ?
>
> Is it safe to only make spams get one hit from the ZEN-SPAMHAUS, I can 
> see that the default in the MailScanner.conf is 1 ?
>
> // ouT
>
> Randal, Phil wrote:
>> cbl.abuseat.org by itself gets a huge proportion of the spam here.
>>
>> Remember that spamhaus requires a subscription for high-volume users.
>>
>> >From http://www.spamhaus.org/zen/index.lasso
>> "Use of the Spamhaus DNSBLs via DNS queries to our public DNSBL 
>> mirrors is free for low-traffic mail servers serving less than 100 
>> users. Use of the Spamhaus DNSBLs by commercial or corporate 
>> networks, ISPs and ESPs, requires a subscription to Spamhaus's Data 
>> Feed service."
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Phil
>> -- 
>> Phil Randal
>> Network Engineer
>> Herefordshire Council
>> Hereford, UK 
>>  
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info 
>>> [mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of Kai 
>>> Schaetzl
>>> Sent: 02 August 2007 13:31
>>> To: mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info
>>> Subject: Re: MS Hanging
>>>
>>> UxBoD wrote on Thu, 2 Aug 2007 10:30:16 +0100 (BST):
>>>
>>>    
>>>> Spam List = ORDB-RBL spamhaus.org spamhaus-XBL spamhaus-ZEN       
>>> spamcop.net NJABL CBL RSL DSBL BLITZEDALL SORBS-DNSBL SORBS-HTTP 
>>> SORBS-SOCKS SORBS-MISC SORBS-SMTP SORBS-WEB SORBS-SPAM SORBS-BLOCK 
>>> SORBS-ZOMBIE SORBS-DUL SORBS-RHSBL
>>>
>>> Oh, my god. No wonder, that it's slow. Compile some stats which of 
>>> these lists really
>>> give you an advantage. You will see that after two or three good 
>>> ones any other will only add marginally and are not worth the query 
>>> as those few are caught by SA, anyway.
>>>
>>> Especially this is totally insane (sorry):
>>> SORBS-DNSBL SORBS-HTTP SORBS-SOCKS SORBS-MISC SORBS-SMTP SORBS-WEB 
>>> SORBS-SPAM SORBS-BLOCK SORBS-ZOMBIE SORBS-DUL SORBS-RHSBL
>>>
>>> These lists are all included in SORBS-DNSBL.
>>>
>>> And, as Martin, says, ZEN includes all Spamhaus lists *plus* CBL.
>>>
>>>
>>> Kai
>>>
>>> -- 
>>> Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany
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Jules

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