RBLs (was: Re: [Gllug] re: secondary MX preference levels)

Paul Cupis paul at cupis.co.uk
Sun Apr 25 14:01:59 UTC 2004


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On Sunday 25 April 2004 07:30, "t.clarke" <tim at seacon.co.uk> wrote:
> I am not convinced that a secondary MX is worthwhile at all.
> We actually scrubbed-out the secondary MX provided by our upstream
> ISP for the very reason that it does no checking for 'dodgy'
> sender-IP's against any of the open-relay databases.
[snip]
> Incidentally open-relay checking, which we do, seems only to reject a
> few spams.  The majority of them get through; hence I now have the
> world largest pile of little blue pills :-)

I think it depends on which "open-relay"-type lists you use. I've had 
very favourable results using cbl.abuseat.org.

What RBLs do others use, and what do they recommend?

Paul Cupis
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paul at cupis.co.uk

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