Re: Blackhole DNS

[john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (John Sievert)]

there are a number of these servers, if you look at the url that I gave you.  One that should be pretty effective is one that concentrates on Asian spammers.  Apparently tons of spam is coming from Korea, China and Taiwan.  We do lots of business with Asia so we can't use that.  However, if we could, I bet that it would get rid of lots of the really filthy stuff that seems to hit us.

I agree, ordb seems a little passive for our taste.  Spamcop seems to be one of the most aggressive.  In spam, aggressive is good.  We have also noted that osirusoft and spamcop seem to be a good complement.  Stuff that gets by one usually gets caught by the other.

j.

On Monday, November 25, 2002, at 10:41 a, Elton wrote:

> John,
>
> I set this up last
> night as was very impressed; only had "relays.ordb.org" and
> was getting nil filtering -- a fraction of what my subject and body
> filters were getting.
>
> Using all three, the
> rbl_filter trapped 75-80% of what my "aggressive" subject
> and body filters are getting.
>
> If rbl filtering gets
> this good, my not need subject or body filters
> :)
>  
>
> Elton
>
> John Sievert wrote:
>
> yep - exactly like that.
>
> I have mine copyto (I have a special
> account for this:
> dynhost@xxxxxxxxxxxx) and discard too
> just to monitor.  However, they
> seem to be pretty accurate for our
> needs.
>
> j
>
> On Sunday, November 24, 2002, at 09:40 p,
> Elton wrote:
>
> > John,
> >
> > Is the format:
> >
> > Source
> > ------
> > Dyn.Host 
> relays.ordb.org       OR
> > Dyn.Host  relays.orisusoft.com 
> OR
> > Dyn.Host 
> bl.spamcop.net
> >
> >
> > Elton
> >
> > On Sunday, November 24, 2002, at
> 09:10 PM, John Sievert wrote:
> >
> >> many (most) are free.  Here
> is a list, the best that I have found
> >> that shows many of them and
> their particular slant on the world.  By
> >> using three, we are trapping a
> lot of spam.
> >>
> >>
> http://www.declude.com/junkmail/support/ip4r.htm
> >>
> >> We use:
> >>
> >>
> relays.osirusoft.com
> >> bl.spamcop.net
> >> relays.ordb.org
> >>
> >> We find that the 1st two catch
> the most.
> >>
> >> John
> >>
> >>
> >> On Friday, November 22, 2002, at
> 11:42 a, Bear Weiter wrote:
> >>
> >>> I have yet to use any of
> these services - are they paid services, or
> >>> completely free? I know how
> to implement them in the filters area, I
> >>> just
> >>> wasn't sure if they were a
> paid service or not.
> >>>
> >>> --Bear
> >>>
> _____________________________________________
> >>> Bear Weiter | Wombat
> Interactive
> >>> Minneapolis
> >>>
> bear@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >>>
> phone:612.343.2034
> >>>
> www.WombatInteractive.com
> >>>
> _____________________________________________
> >>> "The problem with real
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> >>> doesn't come with background
> music."
> >>>
> _____________________________________________
> >>>
> >>>
> >> --
> >> "The box said, 'Requires
> Windows 98 or better'.  So I bought a Mac."
> >> -unknown
> >>
> >
> >
> --
> "The box said, 'Requires Windows 98
> or better'.  So I bought a Mac."
> -unknown
>
>

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