Re: RBLs ... I'm tired of spam ...

Ricardo Ryoiti S. Junior <suga@netbsd.com.br>

From: "Ricardo Ryoiti S. Junior" <suga@netbsd.com.br>
To: Larry Rosenman <ler@lerctr.org>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2003-05-27T22:16:39Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Larry Rosenman wrote:

> FEATURE(dnsbl,`korea.services.net',``Mail from $&{client_addr} 
> rejected by korea.services.net'')dnl
> FEATURE(dnsbl,`brazil.blackholes.us',``Mail from $&{client_addr} 
> rejected by brazil.blackholes.us'')dnl


    Yes, SPAM is really a problem here. Unfortunatelly, telco companies 
won't do anything to keep spammers out of service. It's very radical to 
simply drop all the brazilian IPs, and I just cannot do this otherwise 
I'd be unable to talk to anyone. I've added about 20 B classes to the 
mta's access list and 99% of the spam went away. This is because ALL the 
spam that comes from Brazil are originated from ADSLs/Cablemodens.
    Yet, I used to receive many spams from US/China until I started 
using spews.

    I think that people with .org/.net/.com domains are really in a bad 
situation. People say that when they receive 300 mails a day, 250 or so 
are spam. This sounds really bad. In the worst times, I used to receive 
at most 5-10 spams a day, from 400 other e-mails.

> FEATURE(dnsbl,`opm.blitzed.org',``Mail from $&{client_addr} rejected 
> by opm.blitzed.org'')dnl
>
>
> plus I have a contract for rbl-plus.mail-abuse.org
> opm.blitzed.org is open proxies, and the others are obvious. 


    I found mail-abuse.org to be very burocratic to add a single IP to 
it's database. I think this makes them much less effective.

    []s
    Ricardo.