[AusNOG] [Oz-ISP] [sorbs-announce] Public Servers needed.

[Scott Howard]

On Fri, Nov 02, 2007 at 09:47:09PM +1000, Noel Butler wrote:
> I guess that lamer wont like all my sendmail milter-regex configs then
> that do a better job blocking dynamic wankas than any RBL, however I've
> found SORBS to be very useful  and Matthew always very approachable, I
> guess the turd that runs that site, has been caught out doing norties
> therefor deserves to be where he is and his lil dummy spit more or less
> proves it :)

"Turd"?  Bit of a hard call, especially given that you don't need to
look very hard to find any number of people who dislike SORBS, including
a large percentage of the anti-spam industry.

But don't worry, the feelings are returned by Sullivan, who in the past
month alone has launched major tirades against SpamAssassin, SpamHaus as
well as several specific individuals - all of which are apparently evil
beyond belief.


Personally I'd strongly suggest avoiding SORBS on principle alone (not
to mention false positives), but if you don't want to take my word for
it then google is a good place to start, or just try the following...

http://www.dnsbl.com/2007/07/sorbs-on-accuracy-rates-and-false.html
http://dnsblresourcedata.googlepages.com/criticismfromsorbs
http://groups.google.com/group/news.admin.net-abuse.email/browse_thread/thread/643e0dda1dc20873/424e788336789a70
The last month's archives of SPAM-L are worth reading too, although you
need to subscribe to read them.

  Scott.