DSBL is GONE
Got an email from GFI alerting me that List.dsbl.org is no longer available. According to its website,
DSBL is GONE and highly unlikely to return. Please remove it from your mail server configuration.
DSBL was a blocklist specialized in listing open relays and open proxies. To put it simply, DSBL listed IP addresses of computers that could be tricked into sending spam by anybody. This was a very successful strategy. Nowadays open relays and open proxies are rare, spammers hardly ever use them any more and no software seems to come with an open-by-default policy any more.
Hardly believe that it’s now gone after utilizing it for years but I guess they were right about the fact that the spammers now totally beat this old trick, even though it still helps to block a few every day.
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