[geeks] Spamcop RBL false positives

Phil Brutsche phil at tux.obix.com
Sat Dec 20 03:25:51 CST 2003


Phil Stracchino wrote:

> FYI, the RBL at bl.spamcop.net is currently throwing a lot of false
> positives for sunhelp.org lists (among others).  I don't know whether
> it's an innocent error or the result of a malicious report, but anyone
> who's using it might want to disable it for the time being until it is
> resolved.

bl.spamcop.net should never be used to block mail.  If you ask on most 
of the MTA user lists or any of the anti-spam lists (like SPAM-L) you'll 
get told "use SpamCop for SpamAssassin scoring, not as a block list".

You'll note that SpamCop says the same thing on their web site ;)

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Phil Brutsche
phil at tux.obix.com



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