Re: [Declude.JunkMail] DNS RBL's

[Nick Hayer]

Hi Matt - Matt wrote: Nick, I think that it is worth while to point out that your stats are likely skewed by dictionary attacks and backscatter.  The overwhelming predominance of SURBL and Sniffer-Pharmacy hits (named slightly differently on your system), along with the massive number of NDR's suggests to me that as much as 90% of your current traffic may be from dictionary attacks on a domain or domains that aren't being address validated.  While your system can likely handle this, it massively skews the results for your tests. these stats are from 99.9% validated domains. Overall I get over 2 million a day that are rejected via address validation before they see Declude  :)  Now those would skew the tests! And yes the system handles it - thanks to your good mentoring! On a daily basis the stats change eg: so the one I posted that you are seeing is not really indicative of the overall general traffic but gives an idea of the tests I use. It was intended as a simple reply to Tim regarding tests for him to consider. I prefaced it with the mileage creveat.  I'm sorry if you took it literal. That was not my intention. -Nicko