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Re: [OT] dnsbl.sorbs.net too much restrictive ?

From: Erwan David (erwanrail.eu.org)
Date: Thu Feb 22 2007 - 09:40:03 CST


Le Thu 22/02/2007, Steven F Siirila disait
> On Thu, Feb 22, 2007 at 11:50:11AM +0100, Erwan David wrote:
> > Le Thu 22/02/2007, Robert Felber disait
> >
> > >
> > > Notes:
> > >
> > > 1) personally I suggest to exlcude PBL because you hand the decison whether
> > > to accept dynamic clients (such real clients exist) to spamhaus the ISP of the
> > > client in question. PBL may be included in scoring systems, though.
> > > PBL stands for Policy Blocking List, more info http://www.spamhaus.org/pbl/
> >
> > And PBL lists many BIG blocks (a friend of mine found a /11 in it...)
> > which is not reasonable.
>
> Sure it is, provided that the owner of the netblock in question does not
> allow outbound e-mail by "policy" (hence the "P" in PBL).
>

No. Thats true for some of them, not for all (see
http://www.spamhaus.org/faq/answers.lasso?section=Spamhaus%20PBL,
"What do the different return codes mean in the PBL?")

--
Erwan