Re: One-Stop Security HArdware Devices

From: I am a Sock Puppet (strap_at_hanh-ct.org)
Date: 08/02/05 

Date: Mon, 01 Aug 2005 20:19:28 -0400

Leythos wrote:
> In article <11et3dj826qb3f2@news.supernews.com>, strap@hanh-ct.org
> says...
>
>>Todd H. wrote:
>>
>>
>>>I might consider a shared domain host (cpanel provider perhaps)
>>>running spamassasin. The benefit there is that you have someone else
>>>on call and constantly monitoring server uptime. Dunno if I were
>>>doing a 10 user office if i'd be that excited about maintaining my own
>>>email server if it were a client.
>>>
>>>Spamassassin isn't full proof by and stretch, but it helps quite a
>>>bit.
>>>
>>>BestRegards,
>>
>>Just using blacklists (if you use the right ones, starting with
>>cn-kr.balackholes.us) can kill over 90% right off the bat in my experience.
>
>
> In my experience, with 40+ servers in different parts of the country,
> RBL's get about 70% of SPAM by rejecting it first - it requires
> additional filters to get above 90%.

hmm.. my experience is different. But then again, I use all of the
following:

sbl.spamhaus.org
xbl.spamhaus.org
relays.ordb.org
bl.spamcop.net
argentina.blackholes.us
bl.deadbeef.com
brazil.blackholes.us
cbl.abuseat.org
cn-kr.blackholes.us
dnsbl.ahbl.org
dnsbl.njabl.org
dnsbl.sorbs.net
dul.dnsbl.sorbs.net
dynablock.njabl.org
dynablock.sorbs.net
hongkong.blackholes.us
impersonator.lists.spam.sux.com
japan.blackholes.us
malaysia.blackholes.us
nigeria.blackholes.us
russia.blackholes.us
singapore.blackholes.us
taiwan.blackholes.us
thailand.blackholes.us
turkey.blackholes.us
wanadoo-fr.blackholes.us

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