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Re: RHSBL scalability (affects MARID proposals).

2004-05-13 06:04:54

On Wed, 12 May 2004, Matthew Elvey wrote:

If we assume spammers will churn through $5 domains in very high volume,
and notice if any of them get expired by BL maintainers, so they all
need to stay in BLs, how big a BL are we talking about?

Easier to just blacklist the spammer's name servers. SpamAssassin 3.0
looks up the IP addresses of the nameservers hosting the domains used in a
message's body in the SBL; this technique has proved to be very effective.
The same can be done with domains used in the SMTP conversation and
message header.

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