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 slightly higher levels of flase postives.

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.


> Not 'bad',
> but just poor enough that I prefer to give PBL a weighted score in SA
> rather than run it as a poison pill in the MTA. Though with everything
> I've been seeing lately, I'm darned tempted to ramp it up. Especially if
> sorbs DUL list is going to go bye-bye....
> 
> Perhaps it is time to do some new comparisons? Does anyone have some
> stats on the effectiveness of various RBL's versus the FP rate?

at this time, zen is _the_ list.

> Presumably the scoring defaults in SA are somehow based on this, but I
> wouldn't mind being able to decide for myself. Unfortunately, the
> privacy regs prevent me from keeping a good corpus here and doing my own
> tests.....

despite the privacy "regs" here (and not only because of regs. I am
extremely attached to privacy), I have no problem keeping a corpus of
spam from one hand, and a list of IPs that sent "other" mail.

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