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Choosing a Good DNSBL

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the can-it-filter-all-pr-firms dept.

stry_cat submitted a story about selecting a good DNSBL. It talks about some of the problems with DNS blacklists and the sorts of things that you should be looking for. Things like Speed, Selection Criteria, and Goals make the list. And of course not requiring payment to be removed from the blacklist.

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  1. DNSBL for comment spammers? by _xeno_ · · Score: 4, Interesting

    This seems like as good a place to ask as any. Can mostly email-based DNSBLs be used to try and block comment spammers? I'd love to reduce the load I get from comment spammers trying to spam my website.

    I've been contemplating using an existing DNSBL, but all the well-known ones are focused on email spam. I expect that comment spambots and email spambots mostly overlap, but I'm not sure how effective such a measure would be.

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