Best SPAM black lists to use

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Best SPAM black lists to use

Have a short list, but only a few fit into Plesk

Compworld

1:44 pm on Aug 18, 2007 (gmt 0)

Can some of you chime in and tell me which of these are the best to use? I tried entering them all in to Plesk, but there was a cut-off.

bl.spamcannibal.org
bl.spamcop.net
blackholes.five-ten-sg.com
blackholes.mail-abuse.org
cbl.anti-spam.org.cn
cblless.anti-spam.org.cn
cblplus.anti-spam.org.cn
dialups.mail-abuse.org
dnsbl.ahbl.org
dnsbl.karmasphere.com
dnsbl.njabl.org
dnsbl.sorbs.net
map.spam-rbl.com
rbl-plus.mail-abuse.org
relays.mail-abuse.org
sbl.spamhaus.org
sbl-xbl.spamhaus.org
sorbs.dnsbl.net.au
xbl.spamhaus.org
zen.spamhaus.org

[edited by: Compworld at 1:46 pm (utc) on Aug. 18, 2007]

Receptional Andy

8:38 pm on Aug 20, 2007 (gmt 0)

Personally, I would use a rule-based spam blocking utility like Spam Assassin (I think this is available on plesk) which incorporates RBLs but can give them an appropriate weight. For me, this has got the right balance between spam blocking and false positives.

Declude maintain a nice list [declude.com] of relatively up-to-date RBLs which might be of use otherwise.

jatar_k

8:41 pm on Aug 20, 2007 (gmt 0)

in some scenarios RBLs block a chunk of good mail, depends on who you need to receive email from, or even which country.

I would second Receptional Andy's advice and go with [spamassassin.apache.org...]