On Fri, 2 May 2003, Robert Lemmen wrote: > On Thu, May 01, 2003 at 08:27:42PM +0000, Marco d'Itri wrote: > > >A lot of legitimate mail can be trivially blocked this way, as well, which > > >is why it doesn't make sense to drop it on the server side. > > No. Using SBL definitely does not block "a lot" of legitimate mail. > > in some cases it does. using SPEWS for example would lead to all of my > mails being dropped because there is an online casino somewhere in my > providers netblock...
I think he refers specifically to DSBL (see http://dsbl.org), *not* every DNS-distributed IP blacklist. I agree that Debian should use *some* IP blocking list. I didn't join the project to receive lots of spam from verified spam sources. > (btw, does anybody know whats the problem with an > online casino???) If they send spam, that's probably the problem.
