Spamhaus PBL zone now live

Denis Beauchemin Denis.Beauchemin at USherbrooke.ca
Mon Jan 8 22:41:26 CET 2007


Julian Field a écrit :
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> I have added the pbl and zen domains to the spam.lists.conf file in the 
> main distribution.
> Should I change the default supplied set of Spam Lists = setting to 
> include either the pbl or zen domains?
>
> TCIS List Acct wrote:
>   
>> FYI,
>>
>> The new RBL zone from Spamhaus called Policy Block List (PBL) is now 
>> live (in public beta) and included in the main zone "zen.spamhaus.org" 
>> (which combines the SBL, XBL, and PBL databases)
>>
>> http://www.spamhaus.org/pbl/
>> http://www.spamhaus.org/zen/
>>
>>     
>
> Jules
>
>   

Julian,

I wouldn't activate them by default because of the following:
> ZEN Usage
>
> 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 users, including corporate 
> networks, ISPs and ESPs, requires a subscription to Spamhaus's Data 
> Feed <http://www.spamhaus.org/datafeed/index.html> service.
Besides, zen includes pbl...

Denis

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