[SLL] Best list of RBLs?

[John Aldrich]

Well, this is a recent thing -- it's designed to get mail admins to reject
on initial connect if there's a problem, rather than accepting the mail,
closing the connection and then "bouncing" the email afterwards to the
return address. I get these all the time since my mail server is set to
accept mail to ANY email address at my domain -- it's a good way to set up
unique email addresses, but it's also a pain in the rear, as that means I
get a LOT of bounced messages that I never sent! Personally, I look at this
as a GOOD thing for them to start doing. 

I once reported an email that was bounced to me that I never sent. It was
reported to Pair, who sent me a nice email back stating "this looks like a
fake bounce. It won't happen again" or words to that effect. The mail admin
gets a different note based on what is being reported, so they know EXACTLY
why they were reported!
	John

-----Original Message-----
From: Glenn Stone [mailto:technoshaman at liawol.org]
Sent: Monday, May 16, 2005 9:21 AM
To: linux-list at ssc.com
Subject: Re: [SLL] Best list of RBLs?


On Mon, May 16, 2005 at 09:05:44AM -0400, John Aldrich wrote:
>I like SpamCop's BL. To my way of thinking, they tend not to unjustly
>penalize folks who forward chain letters and stuff to their friends and
>colleagues. It's pretty much ONLY 0wn3d machines and real spammers! See
>http://www.spamcop.net

Any idea of SpamCop's false positive rate?  It appears an innocent server
can be joe-jobbed if it is set up to bounce after the SMTP transaction is
complete... I think I shall go disable this.  Not that I've seen the phony
bounce thing in a while... 

-- Glenn