RE: SORBS bites the dust

2009-07-01 Thread Cory Hawkless
Any examples of such active lists? I suspect a few of us would be interested. -Original Message- From: J.D. Falk [mailto:jdfalk-li...@cybernothing.org] Sent: Thursday, 2 July 2009 4:54 AM To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Re: SORBS bites the dust Arvid Picciani wrote: > Mich

Re: SORBS bites the dust

2009-07-01 Thread J.D. Falk
Arvid Picciani wrote: Michael Grant wrote: Unless I've missed a message... this is the 100th reply to this thread. This has to be one of the longest threads I've seen on this list in years. Shows there is much to discuss on this matter. Isn't there a generic spam related mailing list? There

Re: SORBS bites the dust

2009-06-27 Thread rich...@buzzhost.co.uk
On Sat, 2009-06-27 at 10:59 +0200, Yet Another Ninja wrote: > On 6/27/2009 10:55 AM, Arvid Picciani wrote: > > Michael Grant wrote: > >> Unless I've missed a message... this is the 100th reply to this > >> thread. This has to be one of the longest threads I've seen on this > >> list in years. > >>

Re: SORBS bites the dust

2009-06-27 Thread Yet Another Ninja
On 6/27/2009 10:55 AM, Arvid Picciani wrote: Michael Grant wrote: Unless I've missed a message... this is the 100th reply to this thread. This has to be one of the longest threads I've seen on this list in years. Shows there is much to discuss on this matter. Isn't there a generic spam rel

Re: SORBS bites the dust

2009-06-27 Thread Arvid Picciani
Michael Grant wrote: Unless I've missed a message... this is the 100th reply to this thread. This has to be one of the longest threads I've seen on this list in years. Shows there is much to discuss on this matter. Isn't there a generic spam related mailing list?

Re: SORBS bites the dust

2009-06-27 Thread Michael Grant
Unless I've missed a message... this is the 100th reply to this thread. This has to be one of the longest threads I've seen on this list in years. I have to say I have issues with your definition of legit mail. Many people do send mail to other people out of the blue for legit reasons other than

Re: SORBS bites the dust

2009-06-27 Thread rich...@buzzhost.co.uk
On Fri, 2009-06-26 at 21:06 -0400, Charles Gregory wrote: > On Fri, 26 Jun 2009, LuKreme wrote: > >> > See, it all comes down to what you think 'legitimate' is. > >> The recipient wants the e-mail. DUH. > > That's not my definition at all > > The very reason for my posting. You need not repeat

Re: SORBS bites the dust

2009-06-26 Thread Charles Gregory
On Fri, 26 Jun 2009, John Rudd wrote: It sounds like Charles' user base and cost/benefit analysis is different, and that's fine. Actually no, it's not. I arrive at the same cost/benefit analysis and have instituted the same general policy - I block all hosts on PBL. Thought I made that part cl

Re: SORBS bites the dust

2009-06-26 Thread Charles Gregory
On Fri, 26 Jun 2009, LuKreme wrote: > See, it all comes down to what you think 'legitimate' is. The recipient wants the e-mail. DUH. That's not my definition at all The very reason for my posting. You need not repeat yourself. . it's not even the definition of any mailadmin I've ever

Re: SORBS bites the dust

2009-06-26 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2009-06-25 08:56:00, schrieb Matus UHLAR - fantomas: > Why not? I do that and intentionally - I don't like receiving spam from > companies that don't accept complaints... Hihi... [ '/etc/courier/bofh' ]- badfrom @hotmail.com badfrom @hotmail.de b

Re: SORBS bites the dust

2009-06-26 Thread John Rudd
On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 15:23, LuKreme wrote: > On 26-Jun-2009, at 14:54, Charles Gregory wrote: >> >> I don't care. It's the *meaning* that matters. Not the *word*. > > Fine, then, the meaning. Your meaning is *wanted* and my meaning is mail > from a verifiable source with a verifiable (fixed) IP

Re: SORBS bites the dust

2009-06-26 Thread RW
On Fri, 26 Jun 2009 16:23:22 -0600 LuKreme wrote: > That's not my definition at all; it's not even the definition of any > mailadmin I've ever met. We reject mail users *want* all the time. > It's our job. > ... > Just because the > recipient WANTS it does not make it legitimate. > ... >

Re: SORBS bites the dust

2009-06-26 Thread LuKreme
On 26-Jun-2009, at 14:54, Charles Gregory wrote: On Fri, 26 Jun 2009, LuKreme wrote: On 26-Jun-2009, at 08:55, Charles Gregory wrote: we should not create a false sense of confidence that we will 'never' see legitimate mail come from a PBL-listed IP Yes, we will *never* see legitimate mail fr

Re: SORBS bites the dust

2009-06-26 Thread Charles Gregory
On Fri, 26 Jun 2009, LuKreme wrote: On 26-Jun-2009, at 08:55, Charles Gregory wrote: we should not create a false sense of confidence that we will 'never' see legitimate mail come from a PBL-listed IP Yes, we will *never* see legitimate mail from a PBL-listed IP. See, it all comes down to what

Re: SORBS bites the dust

2009-06-26 Thread LuKreme
On 26-Jun-2009, at 08:55, Charles Gregory wrote: we should not create a false sense of confidence that we will 'never' see legitimate mail come from a PBL-listed IP Yes, we will *never* see legitimate mail from a PBL-listed IP. See, it all comes down to what you think 'legitimate' is. Accord

Re: SORBS bites the dust

2009-06-26 Thread LuKreme
On 26-Jun-2009, at 08:18, Charles Gregory wrote: On Thu, 25 Jun 2009, LuKreme wrote: If only more people understood this. Thanks for the post John, you summarized it very well. If anyone ever whines about the PBL again, please repost. Firstly, my thanks to all who commented. Based upon the

Re: SORBS bites the dust

2009-06-26 Thread Arvid Picciani
Charles Gregory wrote: There are always exceptions. Those can send me (postmaster@) a mail (without beeing blocked) asking for whitelisting. The reject message contains a link explaining how to do that.

Re: SORBS bites the dust

2009-06-26 Thread Charles Gregory
On Fri, 26 Jun 2009, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: Imho, the important question is, why such home user wants to send large amounts of mail Keep in mind, the definition of 'large' may be arbitrarily SMALL for some ISP's Maybe just 100 recipients. if (s)he can't find any (free) h

Re: SORBS bites the dust

2009-06-26 Thread Charles Gregory
On Fri, 26 Jun 2009, Yet Another Ninja wrote: what you do is your choice. (nod) I've already made my choice clear, and would advocate the same for anyone else. My argument was only that we should not create a false sense of confidence that we will 'never' see legitimate mail come from a PBL-l

Re: SORBS bites the dust

2009-06-26 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
> On Thu, 25 Jun 2009, LuKreme wrote: >> If only more people understood this. Thanks for the post John, you >> summarized it very well. If anyone ever whines about the PBL again, >> please repost. On 26.06.09 10:18, Charles Gregory wrote: > Firstly, my thanks to all who commented. Based upon

Re: SORBS bites the dust

2009-06-26 Thread Yet Another Ninja
On 6/26/2009 4:18 PM, Charles Gregory wrote: > These people are not without 'other solutions'. But they are making the best of a bad one. Is this enough to warrant down-scoring the PBL? I no longer think so. But just so we're clear, just because an ISP says that they have a 'policy' does not me

Re: SORBS bites the dust

2009-06-26 Thread Charles Gregory
On Thu, 25 Jun 2009, LuKreme wrote: If only more people understood this. Thanks for the post John, you summarized it very well. If anyone ever whines about the PBL again, please repost. Firstly, my thanks to all who commented. Based upon the weight of this information, I have upgraded my MTA

Re: SORBS bites the dust

2009-06-26 Thread Yet Another Ninja
On 6/26/2009 4:07 PM, Jack Pepper wrote: Quoting LuKreme : On 25-Jun-2009, at 16:01, John Rudd wrote: People who complain that the PBL is blocking things that aren't spam kind of don't get the point of the PBL. The PBL's definition means that it will block non-spam. It should also block a lo

Re: SORBS bites the dust

2009-06-26 Thread Jack Pepper
Quoting LuKreme : On 25-Jun-2009, at 16:01, John Rudd wrote: People who complain that the PBL is blocking things that aren't spam kind of don't get the point of the PBL. The PBL's definition means that it will block non-spam. It should also block a lot of spam, but the fact that it will block

Re: SORBS bites the dust

2009-06-25 Thread Res
On Thu, 25 Jun 2009, LuKreme wrote: On 25-Jun-2009, at 07:08, Res wrote: On Thu, 25 Jun 2009, rich...@buzzhost.co.uk wrote: 1. It's 'You're' a joke - not 'your' a joke Ah the classic sign of someone in defeat, has to nit pick someones grammer NB: it's spelt grammar yyyaan

Re: SORBS bites the dust

2009-06-25 Thread LuKreme
On 25-Jun-2009, at 16:01, John Rudd wrote: People who complain that the PBL is blocking things that aren't spam kind of don't get the point of the PBL. The PBL's definition means that it will block non-spam. It should also block a lot of spam, but the fact that it will block ham is not an indic

Re: SORBS bites the dust

2009-06-25 Thread LuKreme
On 25-Jun-2009, at 15:41, mouss wrote: if you say, I will only block those who I am certain are criminals, then some criminals will get in. s/some/almost all/ -- Battlemage? That's not a profession. It barely qualifies as a hobby. 'Battlemage' is about impressive a title as 'Lord of

Re: SORBS bites the dust

2009-06-25 Thread LuKreme
On 25-Jun-2009, at 07:08, Res wrote: On Thu, 25 Jun 2009, rich...@buzzhost.co.uk wrote: 1. It's 'You're' a joke - not 'your' a joke Ah the classic sign of someone in defeat, has to nit pick someones grammer NB: it's spelt grammar -- There is a tragic flaw in our precious Constitution, a

Re: SORBS bites the dust

2009-06-25 Thread jdow
From: "Res" Sent: Thursday, 2009/June/25 06:08 On Thu, 25 Jun 2009, rich...@buzzhost.co.uk wrote: 3. The day I give a shit about what an Australian spammer thinks of me, will be the day hell freezes over. oh im a spammer now am I, awww poor widdle wicky, go cry to mummy, or tell someone

Re: SORBS bites the dust

2009-06-25 Thread John Rudd
On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 14:41, mouss wrote: > James Wilkinson a écrit : >> If you mean “IP address that should not have been in the PBL but was”, >> that’s one thing. It’s a consistent definition, but not very useful for >> stopping spam. >> > > yes, the PBL may list blocks that contain networks w

Re: SORBS bites the dust

2009-06-25 Thread mouss
James Wilkinson a écrit : > mouss wrote (about the PBL): >> stop spreading FUD. if you know of false positives, show us so that we >> see what you exactly mean. >> >> a lot of people, including $self, use the PBL at smtp time. > > As usual, it depends on your definition of “false positive”. > fu

Re: SORBS bites the dust

2009-06-25 Thread J.D. Falk
DAve wrote: Jack Pepper wrote: How long will this go before Godwin's law finally kicks in? Now I'm just watching for the fun of it . Yea, this is why when my bosses ask where I get my information I tell them from a closed forum. If they read the adolescent ramblings that got posted on ema

Re: SORBS bites the dust

2009-06-25 Thread Arvid Picciani
Jack Pepper wrote: > How long will this go before Godwin's law finally kicks in? It already did. > 1. It's 'You're' a joke - not 'your' a joke > Now I'm just watching for the fun of it Try IRC :-P

Re: SORBS bites the dust

2009-06-25 Thread Yet Another Ninja
On 6/25/2009 4:12 PM, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: On 25.06.09 12:38, Yet Another Ninja wrote: Could this thread be moved to spam-l ? Seems it has little to do with SA spam-l was closed iirc ;-) yes and no it was taken over and its nice & busy http://spam-l.com/mailman/listinfo

Re: SORBS bites the dust

2009-06-25 Thread DAve
Jack Pepper wrote: How long will this go before Godwin's law finally kicks in? Now I'm just watching for the fun of it . Yea, this is why when my bosses ask where I get my information I tell them from a closed forum. If they read the adolescent ramblings that got posted on email/spam lis

Re: SORBS bites the dust

2009-06-25 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 25.06.09 12:38, Yet Another Ninja wrote: > Could this thread be moved to spam-l ? > Seems it has little to do with SA spam-l was closed iirc ;-) -- Matus UHLAR - fantomas, uh...@fantomas.sk ; http://www.fantomas.sk/ Warning: I wish NOT to receive e-mail advertising to this address. Varovanie:

Re: SORBS bites the dust

2009-06-25 Thread Benny Pedersen
On Thu, June 25, 2009 15:08, Res wrote: > On Thu, 25 Jun 2009, rich...@buzzhost.co.uk wrote: > Actually, you were first blocked by a milter because your SPF record > contains "junk" get someone with a clue to set it up for you http://old.openspf.org/wizard.html?mydomain=buzzhost.co.uk&submit=Go!

Re: SORBS bites the dust

2009-06-25 Thread Jack Pepper
How long will this go before Godwin's law finally kicks in? Now I'm just watching for the fun of it . Quoting Res : On Thu, 25 Jun 2009, rich...@buzzhost.co.uk wrote: 1. It's 'You're' a joke - not 'your' a joke Ah the classic sign of someone in defeat, has to nit pick someones gramme

Re: SORBS bites the dust

2009-06-25 Thread Res
On Thu, 25 Jun 2009, rich...@buzzhost.co.uk wrote: 1. It's 'You're' a joke - not 'your' a joke Ah the classic sign of someone in defeat, has to nit pick someones grammer 2. You could always try setting up your Mickey Mouse 'blocked using dnsbl.lan' restriction so it works properly LOL. Act

Re: SORBS bites the dust

2009-06-25 Thread Yet Another Ninja
Could this thread be moved to spam-l ? Seems it has little to do with SA

Re: SORBS bites the dust

2009-06-25 Thread LuKreme
On 25-Jun-2009, at 03:55, rich...@buzzhost.co.uk wrote: On Thu, 2009-06-25 at 11:39 +0200, Per Jessen wrote: rich...@buzzhost.co.uk wrote: On Wed, 2009-06-24 at 19:00 +0200, Per Jessen wrote: Benny Pedersen wrote: 2) I didn't include free email providers in my list of "large and serious ho

Re: SORBS bites the dust

2009-06-25 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
> Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: > > >> > On Wed, June 24, 2009 13:59, Per Jessen wrote: > >> > >> 3) I wouldn't refer to rfc-ignorant as a blacklist - nobody with half > >> a brain would block email just because of RFC ignorance on the part > >> of the sender. > > > > Why not? I do that and inten

Re: SORBS bites the dust

2009-06-25 Thread Per Jessen
rich...@buzzhost.co.uk wrote: > On Thu, 2009-06-25 at 11:39 +0200, Per Jessen wrote: >> rich...@buzzhost.co.uk wrote: >> >> > On Wed, 2009-06-24 at 19:00 +0200, Per Jessen wrote: >> >> Benny Pedersen wrote: >> > >> >> 2) I didn't include free email providers in my list of "large and >> >> seriou

Re: SORBS bites the dust

2009-06-25 Thread rich...@buzzhost.co.uk
On Thu, 2009-06-25 at 11:39 +0200, Per Jessen wrote: > rich...@buzzhost.co.uk wrote: > > > On Wed, 2009-06-24 at 19:00 +0200, Per Jessen wrote: > >> Benny Pedersen wrote: > > > >> 2) I didn't include free email providers in my list of "large and > >> serious hosting providers" - I was thinking mo

Re: SORBS bites the dust

2009-06-25 Thread Per Jessen
Arvid Picciani wrote: >> serious hosting providers" - I was thinking more of organisations >> such as 1and1, hetzner, rackspace etc. etc. > > whats the issue with hetzner? I'm a customer so i'd be very > interested in any spam issue not beeing processed by them. There is no issue with Hetzner.

Re: SORBS bites the dust

2009-06-25 Thread Per Jessen
Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: >> > On Wed, June 24, 2009 13:59, Per Jessen wrote: >> >> 3) I wouldn't refer to rfc-ignorant as a blacklist - nobody with half >> a brain would block email just because of RFC ignorance on the part >> of the sender. > > Why not? I do that and intentionally - I don't

Re: SORBS bites the dust

2009-06-25 Thread Per Jessen
rich...@buzzhost.co.uk wrote: > On Wed, 2009-06-24 at 19:00 +0200, Per Jessen wrote: >> Benny Pedersen wrote: > >> 2) I didn't include free email providers in my list of "large and >> serious hosting providers" - I was thinking more of organisations >> such as 1and1, hetzner, rackspace etc. etc.

Re: SORBS bites the dust

2009-06-25 Thread rich...@buzzhost.co.uk
On Thu, 2009-06-25 at 18:24 +1000, Res wrote: > On Thu, 25 Jun 2009, rich...@buzzhost.co.uk wrote: > > > On Thu, 2009-06-25 at 17:41 +1000, Res wrote: > > > >> if you jump on a bandwagon without first hand experience, thats *exactly* > >> what you are, if you had experienced it first hand of cours

Re: SORBS bites the dust

2009-06-25 Thread Res
On Thu, 25 Jun 2009, rich...@buzzhost.co.uk wrote: On Thu, 2009-06-25 at 17:41 +1000, Res wrote: if you jump on a bandwagon without first hand experience, thats *exactly* what you are, if you had experienced it first hand of course you become an authority on the subject in your your case, and

Re: SORBS bites the dust

2009-06-25 Thread rich...@buzzhost.co.uk
On Thu, 2009-06-25 at 17:41 +1000, Res wrote: > if you jump on a bandwagon without first hand experience, thats *exactly* > what you are, if you had experienced it first hand of course you become an > authority on the subject in your your case, and your opinion matters as > factual, but you by y

Re: SORBS bites the dust

2009-06-25 Thread Res
On Thu, 25 Jun 2009, rich...@buzzhost.co.uk wrote: Personally I have mixed views on charging for delisting. In some instances it would be appropriate and I would not dismiss it out of hand. Certainly for repeat offenders I think it would be highly desirable. Agreed, its one wya to make the adm

Re: SORBS bites the dust

2009-06-24 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
> > On Wed, June 24, 2009 13:59, Per Jessen wrote: > >> Blacklisting a large and serious hosting provider is just not serious > >> and very bad for business. > Benny Pedersen wrote: > > http://rfc-ignorant.org/tools/lookup.php?domain=yahoo.com > > http://rfc-ignorant.org/tools/lookup.php?domain=ho

Re: SORBS bites the dust

2009-06-24 Thread rich...@buzzhost.co.uk
On Thu, 2009-06-25 at 09:16 +1000, Res wrote: > On Wed, 24 Jun 2009, rich...@buzzhost.co.uk wrote: > > >> This is wrong. if you have evidence, show it. if not, stop spreading > >> rumours. I have delisted an IP in the past, and I have been watching > >> people trying to delist a block but without

Re: SORBS bites the dust

2009-06-24 Thread Res
On Wed, 24 Jun 2009, rich...@buzzhost.co.uk wrote: This is wrong. if you have evidence, show it. if not, stop spreading rumours. I have delisted an IP in the past, and I have been watching people trying to delist a block but without clues on how to do it... I have to agree with Mouss here. I'v

Re: [sa] Re: SORBS bites the dust

2009-06-24 Thread mouss
Charles Gregory a écrit : > On Wed, 24 Jun 2009, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: >>> somewhat hesitant to use spamcop as our own servers once had a brief >>> listing with them (and it wasn't due to spam). >> Got more info? > > Sadly, we're dealing with my aging memory. :) > > While I cannot remembe

Re: SORBS bites the dust

2009-06-24 Thread James Wilkinson
mouss wrote (about the PBL): > stop spreading FUD. if you know of false positives, show us so that we > see what you exactly mean. > > a lot of people, including $self, use the PBL at smtp time. As usual, it depends on your definition of “false positive”. If you mean “IP address that should not

Re: SORBS bites the dust

2009-06-24 Thread Arvid Picciani
serious hosting providers" - I was thinking more of organisations such as 1and1, hetzner, rackspace etc. etc. whats the issue with hetzner? I'm a customer so i'd be very interested in any spam issue not beeing processed by them.

Re: SORBS bites the dust

2009-06-24 Thread rich...@buzzhost.co.uk
On Wed, 2009-06-24 at 19:00 +0200, Per Jessen wrote: > Benny Pedersen wrote: > 2) I didn't include free email providers in my list of "large and > serious hosting providers" - I was thinking more of organisations such > as 1and1, hetzner, rackspace etc. etc. My special award goes to 1and1. I get

Re: SORBS bites the dust

2009-06-24 Thread Per Jessen
Benny Pedersen wrote: > > On Wed, June 24, 2009 13:59, Per Jessen wrote: >> Blacklisting a large and serious hosting provider is just not serious >> and very bad for business. > > http://rfc-ignorant.org/tools/lookup.php?domain=yahoo.com > http://rfc-ignorant.org/tools/lookup.php?domain=hotmail.

Re: [sa] Re: SORBS bites the dust

2009-06-24 Thread Charles Gregory
On Wed, 24 Jun 2009, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: somewhat hesitant to use spamcop as our own servers once had a brief listing with them (and it wasn't due to spam). Got more info? Sadly, we're dealing with my aging memory. :) While I cannot remember precisely, categorically it was a situati

Re: SORBS bites the dust

2009-06-24 Thread Benny Pedersen
On Wed, June 24, 2009 13:59, Per Jessen wrote: > Blacklisting a large and serious hosting provider is just not serious > and very bad for business. http://rfc-ignorant.org/tools/lookup.php?domain=yahoo.com http://rfc-ignorant.org/tools/lookup.php?domain=hotmail.com http://rfc-ignorant.org/tools/l

Re: SORBS bites the dust

2009-06-24 Thread Per Jessen
rich...@buzzhost.co.uk wrote: > Some U.K. providers (such as Fasthosts & Rackspace(UK)) never seem to > get a listing for any of their ranges - which is interesting when you > consider they are probably the largest providers of hosting in the UK > and that Spamhaus hosts with one of them. Blackli

Re: SORBS bites the dust

2009-06-24 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
> On Tue, 23 Jun 2009, mouss wrote: >>> When I did my research for setting up RBL's, I found old comparisons >>> between RBL's that seemed to indicate that the spamhaus PBL and the >>> spamcop lists had slightly higher levels of flase postives. >> stop spreading FUD. if you know of false positives,

Re: SORBS bites the dust

2009-06-24 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
> > 50_scores.cf:score RCVD_IN_SORBS_BLOCK 0 # n=1 n=2 n=3 > > 50_scores.cf:score RCVD_IN_SORBS_DUL 0 1.615 0 0.877 # n=0 n=2 > > 50_scores.cf:score RCVD_IN_SORBS_HTTP 0 0.001 0 0.001 # n=0 n=2 > > 50_scores.cf:score RCVD_IN_SORBS_MISC 0 0.001 0 0.353 # n=0 n=2 > > 50_scores.cf:score RCVD_IN_SORBS_

Re: SORBS bites the dust

2009-06-23 Thread rich...@buzzhost.co.uk
On Wed, 2009-06-24 at 00:07 +0200, mouss wrote: > Res a écrit : > > On Tue, 23 Jun 2009, mouss wrote: > > > >> payment were only needed for spam, not for "dul" > > > > not really :) despite what their site said/says.. its kind of a > > detterent i think sunno we never paid > > > > This is w

Re: SORBS bites the dust

2009-06-23 Thread Henrik K
On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 02:34:05PM -0400, Charles Gregory wrote: > On Tue, 23 Jun 2009, mouss wrote: >>> When I did my research for setting up RBL's, I found old comparisons >>> between RBL's that seemed to indicate that the spamhaus PBL and the >>> spamcop lists had slightly higher levels of flase

Re: SORBS bites the dust

2009-06-23 Thread rich...@buzzhost.co.uk
On Tue, 2009-06-23 at 22:17 +0200, Arvid Picciani wrote: > >> It does make you wonder why they never seem to end up on any of the > >> spamhaus lists. Perhaps they are brilliant list washers ? > >> > > > > Same here - I see lots of these and they don't score on many lists. > > It might be an unedu

Re: SORBS bites the dust

2009-06-23 Thread Res
On Tue, 23 Jun 2009, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: On Tue, 23 Jun 2009, mouss wrote: payment were only needed for spam, not for "dul" On 23.06.09 11:07, Res wrote: not really :) despite what their site said/says.. its kind of a detterent i think sunno we never paid well, we've had out

Re: SORBS bites the dust

2009-06-23 Thread Res
On Tue, 23 Jun 2009, Jeremy Morton wrote: Maybe it was better back then, but maybe a year ago I had the same problem and got NO response. Its death actually is good news because it means not so many innocent people will be able to be listed now. Perhaps, this was when Matthew was located in

Re: SORBS bites the dust

2009-06-23 Thread Res
On Wed, 24 Jun 2009, mouss wrote: Res a écrit : On Tue, 23 Jun 2009, mouss wrote: payment were only needed for spam, not for "dul" not really :) despite what their site said/says.. its kind of a detterent i think sunno we never paid This is wrong. if you have evidence, show it. if no

Re: SORBS bites the dust

2009-06-23 Thread mouss
Res a écrit : > On Tue, 23 Jun 2009, mouss wrote: > >> payment were only needed for spam, not for "dul" > > not really :) despite what their site said/says.. its kind of a > detterent i think sunno we never paid > This is wrong. if you have evidence, show it. if not, stop spreading rumours.

Re: SORBS bites the dust

2009-06-23 Thread MATSUDA Yoh-ichi / 松田陽一
Hello. From: Arvid Picciani Subject: Re: SORBS bites the dust Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 22:17:03 +0200 > Should i care to investigate and maybe reject the the entire block? I'm > pretty new on hunting down sources. All I know is the whois databse > which is mostly useless for tha

Re: SORBS bites the dust

2009-06-23 Thread Arvid Picciani
It does make you wonder why they never seem to end up on any of the spamhaus lists. Perhaps they are brilliant list washers ? Same here - I see lots of these and they don't score on many lists. It might be an uneducated guess, but i also have some very annoying hosts on the radar which i s

Re: SORBS bites the dust

2009-06-23 Thread Ned Slider
rich...@buzzhost.co.uk wrote: On Tue, 2009-06-23 at 09:29 -0400, Jeff Moss wrote: WHAT? Sorbs and Spamhaus are polar opposites. Spamhaus is a great organization while SORBS is a POS that helped give all blacklists a bad name. I don't know if SpamAssassin has ever used it. I respect any bl

RE: SORBS bites the dust

2009-06-23 Thread Rosenbaum, Larry M.
> -Original Message- > From: Matus UHLAR - fantomas [mailto:uh...@fantomas.sk] > > >IMPORTANT: If sorbs does not get picked-up by a new host, will SA > > >developers be ready to roll-out an SA update to remove the sorbs > rules, so > > >that we don't suffer a bunch of timeouts? Or how doe

Re: SORBS bites the dust

2009-06-23 Thread Charles Gregory
On Tue, 23 Jun 2009, Jeff Moss wrote: WHAT?  Sorbs and Spamhaus are polar opposites.  Spamhaus is a great organization while SORBS is a POS that helped give all blacklists a bad name. As an interesting side-note, when I went looking for fresh RBL stats I found a lot of indications that SORBS ge

Re: SORBS bites the dust

2009-06-23 Thread Charles Gregory
On Tue, 23 Jun 2009, mouss wrote: When I did my research for setting up RBL's, I found old comparisons between RBL's that seemed to indicate that the spamhaus PBL and the spamcop lists had slightly higher levels of flase postives. stop spreading FUD. if you know of false positives, show us so th

Re: SORBS bites the dust

2009-06-23 Thread Arvid Picciani
WHAT? Sorbs and Spamhaus are polar opposites. Spamhaus is a great organization while SORBS is a POS that helped give all blacklists a bad name. I don't know if SpamAssassin has ever used it. Jeff Moss All i read is "OMG THEY BANNED MY COLORFULL OPT OUT NEWSLETTER111" Sorry i

Re: SORBS bites the dust

2009-06-23 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
> >On Mon, 22 Jun 2009, Arvid Picciani wrote: > >> rich...@buzzhost.co.uk wrote: > >>> It comes with great sadness that I have to announce the imminent > >>> closure of SORBS. > >> crap ... sorbs is the only list I trust enough to have them at SMTP level. > > > >In the past, I did some tests to

RE: SORBS bites the dust

2009-06-23 Thread rich...@buzzhost.co.uk
On Tue, 2009-06-23 at 09:29 -0400, Jeff Moss wrote: > WHAT? Sorbs and Spamhaus are polar opposites. Spamhaus is a great > organization while SORBS is a POS that helped give all blacklists a > bad name. > I don't know if SpamAssassin has ever used it. > I respect any block list for targeting t

RE: SORBS bites the dust

2009-06-23 Thread Jeff Moss
>On Mon, 22 Jun 2009, Arvid Picciani wrote: >> rich...@buzzhost.co.uk wrote: >>> It comes with great sadness that I have to announce the imminent >>> closure of SORBS. >> crap ... sorbs is the only list I trust enough to have them at SMTP level. > >In the past, I did some tests to determine whic

Re: SORBS bites the dust

2009-06-23 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
> On Tue, 23 Jun 2009, mouss wrote: >> payment were only needed for spam, not for "dul" On 23.06.09 11:07, Res wrote: > not really :) despite what their site said/says.. its kind of a detterent > i think sunno we never paid well, we've had out IPs in the DUL (i asked for listing them) and we

Re: SORBS bites the dust

2009-06-23 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
>> On Mon, 2009-06-22 at 19:40 +0200, Arvid Picciani wrote: >>> rich...@buzzhost.co.uk wrote: It comes with great sadness that I have to announce the imminent closure of SORBS. The University of Queensland have decided not to honor their agreement with myself and SORBS and term

Re: SORBS bites the dust

2009-06-23 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
> On Mon, 22 Jun 2009, Arvid Picciani wrote: >> rich...@buzzhost.co.uk wrote: >>> It comes with great sadness that I have to announce the imminent >>> closure of SORBS. >> crap ... sorbs is the only list I trust enough to have them at SMTP level. On 22.06.09 13:54, Charles Gregory wrote: > In t

Re: SORBS bites the dust

2009-06-23 Thread Jeremy Morton
Res wrote: On Mon, 22 Jun 2009, John Rudd wrote: You can wait 1 year ... or pay $50 to some approved charity. So, yes, you can not pay anything, if you're willing to wait a year. And if you do pay, you don't pay THEM exactly. But, it still remains that they expect some form of financial offset

Re: SORBS bites the dust

2009-06-22 Thread Per Jessen
LuKreme wrote: > 42U of space seems a bit much though. I'd think a couple of Xserves > could manage it quite well. I'm probably wrong though. > 42U does sound like a lot of space, but imagine the hardware you'd need to serve an average of 350,000 DNS requests per second. (according to the websi

Re: SORBS bites the dust

2009-06-22 Thread John Rudd
On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 18:07, Res wrote: > On Tue, 23 Jun 2009, mouss wrote: > >> payment were only needed for spam, not for "dul" > > not really :) despite what their site said/says.. its kind of a detterent i > think sunno we never paid I think it's fair to hold/criticize/ridicule them to/f

Re: SORBS bites the dust

2009-06-22 Thread Res
On Tue, 23 Jun 2009, mouss wrote: payment were only needed for spam, not for "dul" not really :) despite what their site said/says.. its kind of a detterent i think sunno we never paid anyway, this is getting way off topic. whatever you & I think of how sorbs should have been run (and

Re: SORBS bites the dust

2009-06-22 Thread Res
On Mon, 22 Jun 2009, John Rudd wrote: You can wait 1 year ... or pay $50 to some approved charity. So, yes, you can not pay anything, if you're willing to wait a year. And if you do pay, you don't pay THEM exactly. But, it still remains that they expect some form of financial offset in order

Re: SORBS bites the dust

2009-06-22 Thread mouss
Gary Smith a écrit : > If you follow the unlisting proceedure and meet all of the requirements, then > you get unlisted. As with all things, it just takes a little patients. > After converting my IP's over from my ISP to my DNS servers, I was listed > (because the ISP no longer listed us a sta

Re: SORBS bites the dust

2009-06-22 Thread mouss
Charles Gregory a écrit : > On Mon, 22 Jun 2009, rich...@buzzhost.co.uk wrote: >> Really? Personally I find the PBL just kicks its ass. > > When I did my research for setting up RBL's, I found old comparisons > between RBL's that seemed to indicate that the spamhaus PBL and the > spamcop lists had

Re: SORBS bites the dust

2009-06-22 Thread LuKreme
On 22 Jun, 2009, at 16:17 , John Rudd wrote: You can wait 1 year ... or pay $50 to some approved charity. So, yes, you can not pay anything, if you're willing to wait a year. And if you do pay, you don't pay THEM exactly. But, it still remains that they expect some form of financial offset in

Re: SORBS bites the dust

2009-06-22 Thread LuKreme
On 22 Jun, 2009, at 12:04 , Charles Gregory wrote: When I did my research for setting up RBL's, I found old comparisons between RBL's that seemed to indicate that the spamhaus PBL and the spamcop lists had slightly higher levels of flase postives. This was certainly true with Spamcop's list

Re: SORBS bites the dust

2009-06-22 Thread John Rudd
On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 15:06, Arvid Picciani wrote: > Jeremy Morton wrote: >> >> You then have to pay their tithe money to get people to start receiving >> your e-mail again. > > sorbs doesn't charge for delisting. > Actually no trustworthy bl does. Technically correct, but not literally. You ca

Re: SORBS bites the dust

2009-06-22 Thread Arvid Picciani
Jeremy Morton wrote: You then have to pay their tithe money to get people to start receiving your e-mail again. sorbs doesn't charge for delisting. Actually no trustworthy bl does.

RE: SORBS bites the dust

2009-06-22 Thread Gary Smith
le to resolve it in a fairly resonable amount of time. I don't recall even paying a dime. From: Jeremy Morton [ad...@game-point.net] Sent: Monday, June 22, 2009 3:01 PM To: rich...@buzzhost.co.uk Cc: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Re: SORBS bite

Re: SORBS bites the dust

2009-06-22 Thread Jeremy Morton
rich...@buzzhost.co.uk wrote: On Mon, 2009-06-22 at 19:40 +0200, Arvid Picciani wrote: rich...@buzzhost.co.uk wrote: It comes with great sadness that I have to announce the imminent closure of SORBS. The University of Queensland have decided not to honor their agreement with myself and SORBS a

Re: SORBS bites the dust

2009-06-22 Thread Charles Gregory
On Mon, 22 Jun 2009, rich...@buzzhost.co.uk wrote: Really? Personally I find the PBL just kicks its ass. When I did my research for setting up RBL's, I found old comparisons between RBL's that seemed to indicate that the spamhaus PBL and the spamcop lists had slightly higher levels of flase p

Re: SORBS bites the dust

2009-06-22 Thread rich...@buzzhost.co.uk
On Mon, 2009-06-22 at 19:40 +0200, Arvid Picciani wrote: > rich...@buzzhost.co.uk wrote: > > It comes with great sadness that I have to announce the imminent > > closure > > of SORBS. The University of Queensland have decided not to honor their > > agreement with myself and SORBS and terminate t

Re: SORBS bites the dust

2009-06-22 Thread Charles Gregory
On Mon, 22 Jun 2009, Arvid Picciani wrote: rich...@buzzhost.co.uk wrote: It comes with great sadness that I have to announce the imminent closure of SORBS. crap ... sorbs is the only list I trust enough to have them at SMTP level. In the past, I did some tests to determine which lists caug

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