[SURBL-Discuss] FP Pattern for sbl-xbl.spamhaus.org

Raymond Dijkxhoorn raymond at prolocation.net
Sun Aug 15 00:03:36 CEST 2004


Hi!

> For a while now, my philosophy has been to use sbl-xbl.spamhaus.org to block
> at the connection level and not even allow these messages onto my server.
> Much of the remaining spam filtering is then done by SURBL-checking.
> However, more recently, I been testing samples of sbl-xbl.spamhaus.org
> blocked messages and I've noticed two things.
> 
> (1) more false positives than I would want to see (though still a very tiny,
> tiny percentage overall) get blocked by sbl-xbl.spamhaus.org
>
> Any thoughts or suggestions? Has anyone examined their sbl-xbl.spamhaus.org
> blocked messages lately?

Allthough its a little oftopic here i would rather suggest blocking on 
MTA level with lists like DSBL, SBL-XBL is a little too wide i think to 
use on MTA level rejects...

Bye,
Raymond


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