On Mon, 20 Aug 2007, Duane Hill wrote:
> On Mon, 20 Aug 2007 at 16:24 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] confabulated:
>
[snip..]
> > I have to second that... In the early days when spammers were just
> > getting started, we started using some RBL's at the MTA level. ORBS
> > was one I believe. Then they went away and started tagging
> > everything as spam, and of course we started rejecting everything.
> >
> > Lesson learned - we will not depend on any external RBL as an
> > absolute pass/fail test ever again :) We use greylisting on the
> > secondary MX's, but everything goes through SA eventually before
> > entering our internal mail system. Works great.
>
> Most blacklists I know of that have gone away in the past set DNS to
> return 127.0.0.2 to ALL requests that came in. Most of the email lists I'm
> on received posts by other list members with reguards to the list going
> away. I would speculate that was the reason your messages started tagging
> as spam.
>
> One such list I remember was ordb.org.
ordb.org RIP 12/31/2006
dorkslayers.com RIP 9/15/2003
osirusoft.com RIP 8/20/2003
orbz.org RIP 3/25/2002
orbs.org RIP 6/3/2001
And that's just from this millenium. ;)
Returning FP to ALL requests is the fastest way to wake up brain-damaged
sites that don't get the clue.
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