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Re: Mailing Lists: RBL, ORBS
- To: Gerald Pfeifer <pfeifer at dbai dot tuwien dot ac dot at>
- Subject: Re: Mailing Lists: RBL, ORBS
- From: Jeffrey A Law <law at hurl dot cygnus dot com>
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1999 17:15:39 -0700
- cc: egcs at egcs dot cygnus dot com, Jason Molenda <jsm at cygnus dot com>
- Reply-To: law at cygnus dot com
In message <Pine.GSO.4.05.9901270058370.29937-100000@alphard.dbai.tuwien.ac.a
t>you write:
> Now that the lists (will shortly) run on the egcs machine, may I suggest
> that we employ filters that block known spam hosts?
>
> Paul Vixie's RBL (http://maps.vix.com/) is nowadays used by quite some
> mail servers and rather conservative.
>
> However, we should also consider honoring ORBS (http://www.orbs.org/),
> which contains open mail relays exclusively and is a bit more agressive.
We will. But full anti-spam measures can't be taken until the relays on
cygnus.com are removed.
I'd like to have the rest of the lists moved by Feb1, but part of that is
out of my hands. I'd like to have the relays removed by Mar 1.
jeff