Mike Cardwell wrote:
Marc Perkel wrote:
http://www.sdsc.edu/~jeff/spam/cbc.html
It appears from Jeff's Blacklists Compared list the Barracuda has
overtaken spamhaus for the #1 position. Not sure about the accuracy
of the list as compared to spamhaus but seams reasonably good to me.
I don't really count apews myself since they are extremely bad, but
my hostkarma list is next beating out abuseat, sorbs, and uceprotect.
Thanks to everyone who is helping me with my tarbaby project to catch
virus bots.
http://wiki.junkemailfilter.com/index.php/Project_tarbaby
Congrats to Barracuda!
The comparisons on that page are useless. What matters is list policy,
reliability and reputation.
SpamHaus is hands down the best dnsbl.
I used to be extremely distrustful of SpamCop, but they seem to be a
lot more reliable than they used to be and in my list they would come
second.
Barracuda is way down the list because of its poor reputation, and
when I tested it last it seemed to generate a fair few false
positives. I still let spamassassin use it for a small score value
though.
Hostkarmas whitelist hits on a lot of spam, so that makes me generally
distrustful of the quality of the contents of all of the hostkarma
lists. I still use them sensibly in my own SpamAssassin configuration
though for applying low scores.
I've been cleaning up my white list lately. It's hard getting it right.
However - I admit that wrongly listed white lists are a lower priority
than whongly blacklisted.
