Re: [SURBL-Discuss] Mailing list gets bounces from my mail providerbecause of surbl

On 4/16/09, Kevin Olson kevino@mxtools.com wrote:

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It looks like it was Postini that blocked a message, based on a SURBL listing for medlistsources<munged>.com.

On 16.04.09 23:27, Jeff Chan wrote:

Thanks for the reference. It looks like the "I sell lists of doctors' email addresses spammer" is sending spam to debian mailing lists. A couple responses to this:

1. The debian list admins should do a better job of filtering spam

from their lists, including by using SURBLs.

2. The list receivers could whitelist the debian lists around their

local spam filtering, but this is really fixing the problem in the wrong way. There should not be spam on the mailing lists in the first place.

While this is true, note that some spam will still get there, if debian lists are early recipients for the spam, so the whitelisting should not be avoided.