[94246] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Comment spammers chewing blogger bandwidth like crazy
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tony Finch)
Sun Jan 14 13:47:10 2007
Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2007 18:31:27 +0000
From: Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at>
To: Peter Corlett <abuse@cabal.org.uk>
Cc: nanog <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <28D32BC3-6DE4-4062-9068-B172FFD8CC18@cabal.org.uk>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Sun, 14 Jan 2007, Peter Corlett wrote:
>
> For the benefit of those of us who have been lucky to Recover from ISP work
> and now herd blogs, would you be so kind as to share which blacklists are
> worthwhile and worth consulting on this front?
I would expect the lists of compromised hosts to be fairly effective -
open proxies of various kinds and perhaps botnet hosts. As for SMTP the
blacklists would only be a starting point that either provide a cheap
preliminary check or feed a more sophisticated filtering system.
Tony.
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