----- Original Message ----- From: "Alex Broens" surbl@alexb.ch
Bill,
Not every spammer HAS to be in a RBL... every mail a spammer sends is legitimate. (except for Chris_looking_for_car_keys )
May I suggest you use http://openrbl.org for your lookups.
eg: http://openrbl.org/ip/207/189/106/22.htm
world looks a different colour there...
Maybe it's time to reevaluate your testing sources. I have taken on the challenge to manually test all of the RBLs that I know of that were listed on the openrbl.org site that it claims have the US Bank IP address listed, and none (NOT ONE) of them currently has the IP address listed:
[billl@mgw1 billl]$ dig 22.106.189.207.dnsbl.ahbl.org +short [billl@mgw1 billl]$ dig 22.106.189.207.block.blars.org +short [billl@mgw1 billl]$ dig 22.106.189.207.cbl.abuseat.org +short [billl@mgw1 billl]$ dig 22.106.189.207.unconfirmed.dsbl.org +short [billl@mgw1 billl]$ dig 22.106.189.207.blackholes.five-ten-sg.com +short [billl@mgw1 billl]$ dig 22.106.189.207.blackholes.intersil.net +short [billl@mgw1 billl]$ dig 22.106.189.207.dnsbl.njabl.org +short [billl@mgw1 billl]$ dig 22.106.189.207.no-more-funn.moensted.dk +short [billl@mgw1 billl]$ dig 22.106.189.207.relays.ordb.org +short [billl@mgw1 billl]$ dig 22.106.189.207.psbl.surriel.com +short [billl@mgw1 billl]$ dig 22.106.189.207.ipwhois.rfc-ignorant.org +short [billl@mgw1 billl]$ dig 22.106.189.207.sbl.csma.biz +short [billl@mgw1 billl]$ dig 22.106.189.207.dnsbl.sorbs.net +short [billl@mgw1 billl]$ dig 22.106.189.207.blacklist.spambag.org +short [billl@mgw1 billl]$ dig 22.106.189.207.bl.spamcop.net +short [billl@mgw1 billl]$ dig 22.106.189.207.map.spam-rbl.com +short [billl@mgw1 billl]$ dig 22.106.189.207.spews.dnsbl.net.au +short [billl@mgw1 billl]$ dig 22.106.189.207.blackholes.uceb.org +short
I got about 400 of those US bank legitimate messages all directed to
german
speaking users, among them 200 pupils of a hearing impaired school. Wanna tell ME they subscribed to that #@*/$àöç
And you know for a fact that they did not subscribe to the newsletter? I am a US Back customer and I have never received their newsletter (and they certainly have my e-mail address since I do online banking with them) until just now, when I subscribed to it for testing purposes.
my 2 cents
Worthless, unless you are willing to back it up with real data and real results.
Bill