From: Peter Kiem (no email)
Date: Sun Dec 01 2002 - 23:48:54 EST
> LH> Does the Wirehub list have a good record of not having a lot of
> false
< LH> positives?
>
> Personally, I recommend avoiding any blacklist that involves human
> judgement. Wirehub's list seems to be extremely well run, but the
> question is do you wish to give editorial control over your mail
> server to someone else?
>
> The WH list, e.g, lists just about every mailing list service out
> there, so if you subscribe to some mailing lists that choose to
> outsource their technology, chances are you won't get it anymore if you
> block based on this list.
Well personally I think the WH list is excellent and contributes greatly
to blocking of spam with VERY few false positives that I can find, if any.
Yes some lists get caught on them but nothing a local whitelist can't
solve :)
Also by checking the WH list first before the DNS based ones you can often
reject the spam without the extra cost of the DNS lookups.
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