Hi,

On Sat, 6 Dec 2003 01:05:16 -0000 "Alan Munday" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> With various threads talking, and questioning, about blacklists I have
> started to try and understand these a bit more.
[snip]
> What this does not make clear is if my firewall is rejecting mail against
> the first response, possible looking at the logs (though I'll fire a
> question at the manufacturers to check), or if the list servers are just
> very slow or not responding.

You're probably rejecting on the first hit which skews effectiveness
results, especially if there's high overlap between the blocklists. 

> Various posters have stated what they use and ask what others are using and
> their experience of those list servers.... Is anyone collating this
> information?

Yes, see the methodology here

http://www.sdsc.edu/~jeff/spam/Blacklists_Compared.html

and the current (11/22/2003) effectiveness comparison here

http://www.sdsc.edu/~jeff/spam/cbc.html

As always, YMMV...

-- 
Bob Apthorpe


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