Re: NEVER USE SORBS

[Michael Loftis <mloftis@modwest.com>]

--On July 26, 2006 5:19:02 PM -0700 Paul Johnson <baloo@ursine.ca> wrote:

> On Wednesday 26 July 2006 15:38, Craig Sanders wrote:
>
> > the only people i ever see whining about SORBS (or most other RBL/DUL
> > services) are a) spammers, b) incompetents, c) lazy slobs, and d)
> > self-centred jerks who think that their desire to operate a dinky little
> > mail server somehow requires all other mail server operators to receive
> > millions of spams and viruses just on the off-chance that they might one
> > day want to send them an email.
>
> SORBS throws the baby out with the bathwater.  If you  want to use
> something  more precise, try bl.spamcop.net or bl.ursine.ca.

Never heard of the latter, but we do make front-line-use of the former 
(SpamCop) with great success.  Very very low false positive rate and very 
high stop rate.  It's also completely automated.  Listings are within a two 
day timeframe so if you're not a SPAM source, and jsut temprarily had a bad 
few hours, you might get on the list, and competent admins who are just 
using SC to 4xx (tempfail) mail will receive your mail a few hours later 
after you're delisted.