On Tue, 9 May 2006, Jakob Hirsch wrote:
>
> Dave Holland wrote:
>
> >> So - just an informal survey of blacklists. What's your most favorite,
> >> semi-favorite, and least favority black lists?
> > This is a personal opinion...
> >> BEST:
> >>
> > sbl-xbl.spamhaus.org cbl.abuseat.org relays.ordb.org relays.visi.com
>
> relays.visi.com is down since Dec 2004...
> (http://groups.google.com/group/news.admin.net-abuse.email/browse_thread/thread/919a245b6d08a0fe)
>
> And I think no single external list is valid for DENY.
>
The CBL and SBL/XBL are about as FP as you're likely to get, and
I have no reserverations using them to 5xx.
The darn few CBL/XBL FPs I have to whitelist around are invariably
caused by an unsecured NAT that is allowing spam/viruses to do
direct-to-MX.
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