On Wed, 2009-11-25 at 13:45 -0500, Alex wrote: > Hi, > > I'm interested in people's opinion of UCEPROTECT. I'm aware of how it > works, but even UCEPROTECT1 seems to catch an awful lot of ham, and I > wondered if I was doing something wrong. > > I've set the score to 0.01 for now, while I watch and see how it works > here. What's a more reasonable score? I don't think I would ever use > UCEPROTECT2 or UCEPROTECT3, as we have a lot of verizon/comcast users > where the whole block or ASN could be blacklisted. > > Can you give me some history of this blocklist? > > Thanks, > Alex I would not trust it to block on as it does appear to catch lots of ham. Claus, the ?owner? of Uceprotect is a bit of an assclown with an odd listing policy. This includes buying old expired domains and then listing anything that emails them. This includes opt-in mail from the previous domain owner.
There has been quite a bit of discussion on this in the NANAE Usenet group. You can find references to it via google groups, but be warned it's a very nasty, aggressive and abusive group to visit.
