[115348] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: spamhaus drop list
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rich Kulawiec)
Thu Jun 18 07:44:35 2009
Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2009 07:44:13 -0400
From: Rich Kulawiec <rsk@gsp.org>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <20090616210450.10312.qmail@simone.iecc.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 09:04:50PM -0000, John Levine wrote:
> Not that I've ever seen. Nobody else has the breadth of data that
> Spamhaus does.
>
> I've been using it for ages and based on zero complaints, it's never
> blocked anything that any of my users wanted.
I strongly concur with John: using the Spamhaus DROP list is incredibly
effective not just against spam but against many other forms of abuse.
I use a script to update various routers/firewalls/mail systems once
a week, and there have been no problems of any kind with it.
---Rsk
