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Re: RBLs for SPAM Control
From: Alexis <bonobo () bigpond net au>
Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2005 11:48:24 +1000
On Sat, 30 Jul 2005 02:41 am, Micheal Espinola Jr wrote:
Before you go off to pay someone $, you may want to look into the other free RBL's that are out there. I use these in combination: sbl-xbl.spamhaus.org dnsbl.njabl.org dnsbl.sorbs.net dul.dnsbl.sorbs.net bl.spamcop.net cbl.abuseat.org list.dsbl.org relays.ordb.org
Well, this morning i discovered that the IP address recently allocated to me by my ISP is on the dnsbl.sorbs.net RBL . . . . :-/ i must say i'm not enthused about the notion of being false-positived by spamfilters worldwide, particularly since i maintain a tiny mailing list which sends out a news email to ~20 people each day. Of course, i could shut down my net connection, wait a bit, then restart it in the hope that DHCP allocates me a different IP (although there's obviously no guarantee that the new IP won't be on an RBL as well). But this has got me wondering: how does an IP address get /removed/ from RBLs? Is there some sort of 'time-out' period, where if there are no reports of spam from a particular IP after a certain length of time, it gets removed from the list? Otherwise, i suspect that in the not-too-distant future, ISPs will find most of their IP address pool on an RBL . . . . Alexis.
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- Re: RBLs for SPAM Control security (Aug 01)
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- RE: RBLs for SPAM Control Chris Santerre (Aug 02)
- Re: RBLs for SPAM Control Devdas Bhagat (Aug 02)
- Re: RBLs for SPAM Control Micheal Espinola Jr (Aug 02)
- Re: Re: RBLs for SPAM Control Phil Cryer (Aug 03)
- Re: RBLs for SPAM Control Alexis (Aug 03)
- Re: RBLs for SPAM Control Devdas Bhagat (Aug 04)
- Re: RBLs for SPAM Control Alexis (Aug 05)
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- Re: RBLs for SPAM Control Alexis (Aug 05)
- Re: RBLs for SPAM Control Devdas Bhagat (Aug 08)
- RE: RBLs for SPAM Control David Gillett (Aug 10)
- Re: RBLs for SPAM Control Devdas Bhagat (Aug 04)
- Re: RBLs for SPAM Control maxfield (Aug 08)