tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3283954356437794617.post8690555312085192554..comments2023-09-19T10:42:00.033-07:00Comments on The Perl NOC: cpan.org mail forwarder listed in SorbsUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3283954356437794617.post-87619372901178287772006-11-27T11:21:50.000-08:002006-11-27T11:21:50.000-08:00Hi Justin,I'm glad I didn't bother to figu...Hi Justin,<br>I'm glad I didn't bother to figure out to get de-listed then. :-) (They still had a $50 donation thing too).<br>As a sidenote, we finally got our MX to not accept mails to addresses we don't have anyway (before it was doing the standard qmail thing - we'd absorb most spam and all viruses, but we still had some silly bounces going back out - not anymore!)<br>- ask<br>Ask Bjørn Hansenhttp://profile.typekey.com/ask/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3283954356437794617.post-90184189024649764432006-11-19T20:20:14.000-08:002006-11-19T20:20:14.000-08:00hi Ask --in my experience, you'd really need t...hi Ask --<br>in my experience, you'd really need to go via the SORBS delisting procedure; they don't do personal requests :(<br>if it's any consolation, that's the SORBS sub-list that Spamassassin doesn't use -- we don't support the $50 delisting fee they change (or at least, used to charge) for that sublist. so that listing will have no effect on people using SA.<br>Judging by the rule hit frequencies, it looks like it tends to have a huge false positive rate, too -- hitting about 8% of our nonspam collections on average:<br>http://ruleqa.spamassassin.org/?daterev=20061118-r476474-n&rule=%2FSORBS&srcpath=&s_zero=on&g=Change<br>(that's computed by taking the hitrate for __RCVD_IN_SORBS, 9.7573%, and subtracting the various sub-0.2% false positive rates for all the other RCVD_IN_SORBS_* rules... leaves about<br>8%, which can only be that one rule.)<br>if that FP rate is correct, then people using SORBS directly will be quite used to losing a metric crapload of good mail.<br>jmhttp://profile.typekey.com/jmason/noreply@blogger.com