[TriLUG] preferred RBLs?

[David McDowell]

How can an organization force you to pay them for removal...
"donation" or not??  That seems like a highly bad way of existance. 
They could blacklist microsoft.com or something and hold it for
ransom... I mean... ??  hrrmmm... makes no sense to me.


On 11/29/05, Douglas Ward <binaryflow at gmail.com> wrote:
> We use the following (copied from main.cf on our gateway server):
>
>   reject_rbl_client   sbl-xbl.spamhaus.org,
>   reject_rbl_client   bl.spamcop.net,
>   reject_rbl_client   list.dsbl.org,
>   reject_rbl_client   relays.ordb.org,
>   reject_rbl_client   spam.dnsrbl.net,
>   reject_rbl_client   combined.njabl.org,
>   reject_rbl_client   vox.schpider.com,
>   #reject_rbl_client   dnsbl.sorbs.net,
>
> We stopped using sorbs because of their propensity to blacklist entire ISP's
> (like mindspring or gmail) because of a few offenders.  They also require
> legitimate senders pay a fee (donation) to be removed from their service.
> When we stopped using sorbs.net several long standing issues went away
> immediately.
>
> On 11/29/05, Jason Tower <jason at cerient.net> wrote:
> >
> > anyone have smtp RBLs that they're particularly fond of?
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