>>I've heard good things about RRSS (<URL:http://relays.radparker.com/>) and
>>the person running it certainly seems to be much calmer and more
>>professional about it.
>
>I saw this site mentioned on the Tidbits Talk list about a week ago. I
>took a look, and I didn't see anything very useful. It looked to me like a
>Vixie RBL clone, only listing sites that had already spammed. I rarely get
>RBL hits, and would guess that RRSS hits would be equally as rare.
On the contrary, I get scads of delivery attempts from hosts in RRSS.
RRSS is like ORBS in that when an IP is nominated, it sends a relay
test and adds the host immediately if the relay test succeeds. This
can take as little as a minute or two. Many sites, including mine,
have spam trap addresses set up to automatically send nominations to
RRSS whenever spam arrives from an unknown address, meaning that a new
relay is typically listed within a few minutes of starting a spam run.
>The usefulness of ORBS to me has always been that they do list sites that
>have never spammed but are open to abuse.
That's part of the problem -- the vast majority of hosts in ORBS have
never relayed any spam and never will, and I hope we agree that the
goal is not to block legitimate non-spam mail. RRSS lists actual open
spam relays, and gets them in promptly.
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