Author: Alan Thew Date: To: Andrew - Supernews CC: exim-users Subject: Re: [Exim] Lists antiSpam.
On Fri, 21 Nov 2003, Andrew - Supernews wrote:
> >>>>> "Tim" == Tim Jackson <lists@???> writes:
>
> Tim> Do you use DSBL and, if so, is it before or after CBL in your
> Tim> DNSBL list? Just curious, because I added CBL (after
> Tim> recommendations here) but after 2 weeks it hadn't actually
> Tim> caught anything that wasn't already in DSBL, so I turned it off
> Tim> again.
>
> >From the past few hours connection attempts here, based on a single
> lookup that stops as soon as it gets one hit, though the fact of
> getting a hit on one of these (other than the CBL) isn't in itself
> enough for us to block the mail, so these numbers may possibly include
> some non-spam:
> <snip> >
> Changing the order around and letting it run for another couple of
> hours gave:
>
> 1157 cbl.abuseat.org
> 214 list.dsbl.org
> 338 bl.spamcop.net
> 64 blackholes.easynet.nl
> 347 spews
> 15 sbl.spamhaus.org
> We use the CBL after RBL+ and initially our spam load dropped dramtically
but spammers move on and even the CBL can't keep the current crop out
much.
