[sclug] RBL recommendations

[Matt Dainty]

* David Given <dg at cowlark.com> [2007-02-12 10:42:53]:
> My shiny new SMTP greylister proxy (<plug> http://spey.sf.net </plug>) now
> supports RBLs. I'm currently running it with spamhaus' Zen RBL, which is
> working really, really well --- in 36 hours it's blackholed 890 incoming
> connections.

I was using the SBL/XBL zone, and I didn't know about the Zen zone, I
might have to try that out.

> In fact, it's working so well I'm slightly nervous that it's refusing access
> to legitimate mail servers. Zen is a combination of SBL (spammers), XBL (open
> proxies) and PBL (dynamic IP addresses who shouldn't be sending mail anyway).
> Is this too aggressive? What's spamhaus' reputation for zealotry? What RBLs
> are people using in commercial environments?

I use spamhaus as the primary RBL on my mail servers, TBH I've not not
received mail that I should have, IYSWIM.

Matt
-- 
"I know it's your T1 because our network guy teleported into the Baywatch
hub and checked it!"
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