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RBLs are a bad idea, they often end up in abuse.

To this day - with v4 exhausted and despite numerous delisting attempts - I have a /21 listed in Sorbs because it happened to be in the past part of an ISP's /18 dynamic range for customers.

They deserve all that's coming to them and more. Too bad other's get affected in the process.



> RBLs are a bad idea, they often end up in abuse.

Indeed, all they should be used for is perhaps 0.5 points worth of spamassassin weight. Sysadmins who use spamhaus as a blacklist are just as incompetent as those who bounce virus e-mails to the address in "From:" ...


Hehe, true. It takes 2 ...




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