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Re: More sorbs blacklisting



On Mon, Jul 10, 2006 at 10:13:35AM +0100, Neil McGovern wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 09, 2006 at 11:23:34PM +0300, Juha-Matti Tapio wrote:
> > > > and your ISP complies with all the other rules
> > > > that SORBS likes to enforce then you could possibly get this
> > > > decision reversed.
> > > The rules are ridiculous and arbitrary. 
> > 
> > They are arbitrary, but they catch spam very well and there are practically
> > no false positives (not counting people who really should be using
> > smarthosts).
> > 
> 
> I object to the "practically no false positives (not counting people who
> really should be using smarthosts)".
> 
> I run a mailserver, which has a static allocation. Reverse DNS matches
> forward DNS. However, TTL was lowered on the records so we could move
> various servers to a new range. We then found that the entire /24 was
> blocked as being 'dynamic', despite the range being clearly PI space.
> 
> Should I be using a smart host in this instance?

The only people who "should be using smarthosts" are people on dialup
or other intermittently-connected links... You have my sympathy.

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