On Tue, 2004-05-04 at 20:01, Mr. Adam ALLEN wrote:
On Tue, 2004-05-04 at 12:38, Matt Parker wrote:
I find that SORBS is good for filtering out mail from dynamic DSL (which is always spam - if you want to run a mailserver you should have a static IP), and SpamCop is good since they seem to be more responsive to the "DoS" problem than the other lists.
So how do you determine if the user is allocated the IP statically vs dynamic. Since an ISP might have block 82.6.0.0/16 allocated to them for "dynamic internet access", and assign 82.6.7.8/32 to a user. How exactly do you know it's static... the listing on RIPE isn't going to be much use.
Mail from dynamic DSL is not alway spam, as long as you aren't like AOL which just doesn't follow the SMTP protocol when an IP it doesn't like tries to send mail to it's users.
According to this - http://www.dnsbl.nl.sorbs.net/DUL-FAQ.html - the ISPs themselves submit to them what are their dynamic IP blocks and which are static. SORBS suggest that if you are on a dynamic IP that you route your mail through the ISPs own mailservers. Sensible really.
Matt