[ale] spam lists

[Thomas Wood]

...I should have read this one before responding to Krum.  I can attest 
to the validity of Comcast broadband being partially blacklisted in 
SORBS.  It's become such a problem at work that we had to turn off RBLs 
altogether.  I still advocate them as a component of good spam 
defense...but the example sorta blew up in my face : /

wood
On Mar 31, 2004, at 9:43 AM, Dow Hurst wrote:

> I think it is the ISP your with, comcast, that must have gotten on the 
> list or parts of it.  Someone mentioned something about comcast being 
> partially blocked a few weeks ago on the list.  Maybe your in that 
> block of addresses? I know that I am thinking before classifying email 
> as Junk in Mozilla.  Most spam is noted properly right now after 
> unlabeling a bunch of mislabeled email and once a week I check the 
> Junk folder for aberrant labeling.  The emails with lots of words from 
> a dictionary inserted ends up fooling the algorithms.  Also, the weird 
> short spam message with long normal excerpts of stories work on the 
> spam filters too,
> Dow
>
>
> Kevin Krumwiede wrote:
>> On Tue, 30 Mar 2004 23:08:12 -0500
>> Thomas Wood <thomaswood at mac.com> wrote:
>>> SORBS is pretty good.  It takes effort to get on or off the list.
>> Funny you should mention.  Just minutes ago I attempted to send mail 
>> to
>> an ISP's abuse address, and found I could not because SORBS is 
>> blocking
>> my specific IP for sending messages to a spamtrap address.  I have no
>> idea how that happened, since I don't run a MTA and the Windows box I
>> use for games is always patched and never runs IE or Outlook..  (I'm
>> pretty sure none of my other boxes have been hacked and turned into 
>> spam
>> relays, unless spammers have figured out how to keep the network
>> activity lights on my router from blinking...)  Apparently it's not
>> *that* hard to get on the SORBS list.  Just something to keep in mind 
>> if
>> you want people to actually be able to, like, contact you and stuff.
>> Krum
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