Moving Away from RBLs (Score 1)

When my company used UUnet/Worldcom for Internet services, we were plagued by the constant blacklisting of nearly all UUnet IP address blocks. I have sympathy for people who are in this situation. Last week, I tried a different approach from the typical RBL use. I tried using SpamAssassin, Razor in conjunction with Mailscanner. It worked amazingly well. Razor works in a way that legitimate e-mail will not be blacklisted and unsolicited email will be flagged. It is as simple as that. From what I understand, Razor takes the checksum of the incoming mail and compares it to a database of blacklisted mail. Spamassassin, although not flawless, does a pretty good job on determining what is spam. The only RBL I insist you use now is ORDB.