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  1. trustic by crisen · · Score: 1 · on O'Reilly Article on Spam Defense

    Ive just signed up with Trustic after reading this article. Great service, plus its free. Im currently pushing all the spam SpamAssassin finds to my Trustic account with procmail, to register my negative recommendations.

    This is certainly one way we can all help to fight spam.

  2. Using Trustic with SpamPal by NaDrew · · Score: 2, Informative · on O'Reilly Article on Spam Defense
    I use SpamPal with the Bayesian filter as my client-side spam filter on Win2K. It works well enough but I'm always looking to improve things, so this article gave me the impetus to see if SpamPal could be made to use Trustic's DNSBL in addition to its preconfigured lists. The answer, at least for SpamPal Beta 1.295, is yes--using the "Extra DNSBL Definitions" section of the Options dialog. Here are the steps I used to add Trustic to the DNSBLs used by SpamPal:
    1. Create a Trustic account
    2. Once you've verified your registration, go to Trustic's DNS Query Information page for your account and note the second DNS query address.
    3. In SpamPal, open the Options dialog and drill down to the "Extra DNSBL Definitions" section. Click the "Extra DNSBL Instructions" button for information on adding a DNSBL to SpamPal. Read this text and then close the file.
    4. Click the "Extra DNSBL Definitions" button. This opens "extra_dnsbl.txt". Add a new DNSBL entry as follows:
      LIST Trustic
      NAME Trustic DNSBL
      TYPE STANDARD
      WEBSITE http://www.trustic.com/
      ZONE queryaddress
      DESCRIPTION Trustic is a community-based block list that prevents untrusted servers from sending spam. It is a new approach to the spam problem, and it is better than existing solutions.
      Substitute the personalized query address you saw in step 2 above for queryaddress.
    5. Save and close "extra_dnsbl.txt", then exit SpamPal and relaunch it.
    6. Open SpamPal's Options dialog and drill down to Spam-Detection, Blacklists, Public Blacklists. Trustic should now appear on the list. Select it and click Apply, OK.
    That's it--SpamPal should now be checking Trustic's DNSBL for your incoming mail. Trustic may require additional RESULT_CODE settings--I'm waiting for a response from Trustic and will follow up if needed.
  3. Using Trustic with SpamPal by NaDrew · · Score: 2, Informative · on O'Reilly Article on Spam Defense
    I use SpamPal with the Bayesian filter as my client-side spam filter on Win2K. It works well enough but I'm always looking to improve things, so this article gave me the impetus to see if SpamPal could be made to use Trustic's DNSBL in addition to its preconfigured lists. The answer, at least for SpamPal Beta 1.295, is yes--using the "Extra DNSBL Definitions" section of the Options dialog. Here are the steps I used to add Trustic to the DNSBLs used by SpamPal:
    1. Create a Trustic account
    2. Once you've verified your registration, go to Trustic's DNS Query Information page for your account and note the second DNS query address.
    3. In SpamPal, open the Options dialog and drill down to the "Extra DNSBL Definitions" section. Click the "Extra DNSBL Instructions" button for information on adding a DNSBL to SpamPal. Read this text and then close the file.
    4. Click the "Extra DNSBL Definitions" button. This opens "extra_dnsbl.txt". Add a new DNSBL entry as follows:
      LIST Trustic
      NAME Trustic DNSBL
      TYPE STANDARD
      WEBSITE http://www.trustic.com/
      ZONE queryaddress
      DESCRIPTION Trustic is a community-based block list that prevents untrusted servers from sending spam. It is a new approach to the spam problem, and it is better than existing solutions.
      Substitute the personalized query address you saw in step 2 above for queryaddress.
    5. Save and close "extra_dnsbl.txt", then exit SpamPal and relaunch it.
    6. Open SpamPal's Options dialog and drill down to Spam-Detection, Blacklists, Public Blacklists. Trustic should now appear on the list. Select it and click Apply, OK.
    That's it--SpamPal should now be checking Trustic's DNSBL for your incoming mail. Trustic may require additional RESULT_CODE settings--I'm waiting for a response from Trustic and will follow up if needed.
  4. Re:Permission Based Solutions by markfletcher · · Score: 1 · on Ask ISP Owner Barry Shein About the Spam Wars
    One of the problems with whitelisting is that they are based on email addresses. Most everything in an email message, including the sending email address, can be easily forged. So, if a whitelisting solution becomes popular, all a spammer would have to do would be to forge email so that it looked like it was sent from Amazon or some other large company that regularly sends notification messages.

    For better or worse, the only difficult thing to forge in email is the sending IP address. That's why we have blocklists based on IP addresses.

    obPlug: My company Trustic is a DNS blocklist based on the shared recommendations of our users.

  5. The problem with filters by markfletcher · · Score: 5, Insightful · on Spam Catchers Block Latest Crypto-Gram
    This illustrates one of the big problems with filters. They will never be perfect, spammers are always adjusting to them (even the Bayesian ones), and the way many are implemented, they make email unreliable (by deleting suspected spam messages and not bouncing them). Blocking untrusted servers by IP address avoids these issues.

    obPlug: This is why I created Trustic.