URIBL False Positives

[Richard Frovarp]

Jay Chandler wrote:
> Hugo van der Kooij wrote:
>> On Tue, 27 Feb 2007, Stephen Swaney wrote:
>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info [mailto:mailscanner-
>>>> bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of Jay Chandler
>>>> Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2007 7:08 PM
>>>> To: MailScanner discussion
>>>> Subject: URIBL False Positives
>>>>
>>>> I've gotten a few false positives on URIBL_BLACK.  I've checked every
>>>> URL in the message, and it's NOT listed.  What should my next
>>>> troubleshooting step be?
>>>
>>> That list is a little aggressive. We have some customers who can 
>>> take it -
>>> and some who have turned it off.
>>
>> In my view the list is not aggresive enough. If you have repeated 
>> spam with URL's listed of dubious sites and they are still rejected 
>> then I think they are rather conservative.
>>
>> But I think the point is that no URL in the message is recognized on 
>> the site.
>>
>> Jay: How much time was there between the message and your verification?
>>
>
> Less than 24 hours.  This has happened a few times now-- I suspect 
> it's an issue with my side, as a retest of the same message gets 
> through just fine.  I've been very happy with the URIBL blacklist, 
> just not so happy with a message false positiving when every URI in 
> the message is quite clean...
>
You're not using some sort of funky DNS provider? The name of the one 
that has caused problems in the past fails me at the moment.