No spam???

Nikola Lečić nikola.lecic at anthesphoria.net
Tue Jan 15 06:04:52 PST 2008


On Tue, 15 Jan 2008 08:48:32 -0500
John Almberg <jalmberg at identry.com> wrote:
 
> The smtp log file has lots of entries like:
> 
> 2008-01-14 09:30:37.074087500 rblsmtpd: 123.20.89.67 pid 72121: 451  
> http://www.spamhaus.org/query/bl?ip=123.20.89.67
> 2008-01-14 09:31:05.271514500 rblsmtpd: 58.227.241.97 pid 72122: 451  
> Dynamic IP Addresses See: http://www.sorbs.net/lookup.shtml? 
> 58.227.241.97
> 2008-01-14 09:31:17.404943500 rblsmtpd: 41.196.155.56 pid 72123: 451  
> http://www.spamhaus.org/query/bl?ip=41.196.155.56
> 2008-01-14 09:31:18.304682500 rblsmtpd: 123.20.89.67 pid 72124: 451  
> http://www.spamhaus.org/query/bl?ip=123.20.89.67
> 
> So raises the same point that Oliver makes: how trustworthy are
> these blacklists?

Search this lists' archives, you'll find that FreeBSD mail servers used
to be blacklisted by Sorbs on several occasions in the past... In
May 2007, after intervention, Sorbs man eventually admitted that they
blacklisted FreeBSD server "by accident":

  http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports/2007-May/041520.html

Very trustworthy. :-)

-- 
Nikola Lečić :: Никола Лечић


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