SORBS - Is There a Better Spam Blacklist?

Posted by Cliff on Thursday January 4, 2007 @08:50PM from the blacklists-in-general-are-like-this dept.

rootnl asks: "Recently I decided to upgrade my email server with better spam detection and decided to use the SORBS blacklist. It is a very aggressive blacklist and could be deemed quite effective. However, I discovered two totally legal servers currently being blocked by their Spam 'o Matic service: a Google Gmail server (64.233.182.185), and another server belonging to an ISP called Orange (193.252.22.249). Now, normally one would think these providers would probably get themselves de-listed, but the process provided revolves around donating money. As I just happen to have a friend that is using the said ISP, I have to seriously reconsider using SORBS. What is your experience with SORBS? If you have alternatives, what would you suggest as a better blacklist service?"

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Re:SORBS should be shut down. by finchwizard · 2007-01-04 21:35 · Score: 4, Insightful

All 30 IP's I rent are Static, and that has never changed over the years I've owned them, my servers are also running Linux and are very secure with both Spamassassin and ClamAV scanning, as well as blocking certain mimetypes. So don't give me dynamic IP range stuff, I was lucky that my ISP managed to straighten them out, but I've had friends that aren't as lucky. Of course SORBS is going to block a high rate of spam, it's also blocking a lot of legitimate people, and the fact they are extorting people to get off the list is ludacris.