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How to Keep Your Self Off The Spam List

Thursday, September 4, 2008

I will start this off very simple. Spamhaus Block List (SBL) is the list everyone wants to stay off of. Spamhaus.org is the main place people check to see if some one is considered a spammer or not. The information here on in is collected from Spamhaus.org and these are the main guidelines and rules that need to be followed:

Or "How do I keep my spammers off my network?"

Enforce a strong Acceptable Use Policy (AUP).

Read postmaster@ and abuse@ mailboxes every day, and act on reports!

Maintain accurate and active contact information in "whois" records.

Check out new clients at http://www.spamhaus.org/rokso/.

Check out new clients at http://groups.google.com/.

Be sure that your role accounts & feedback loops are working properly, which includes:
* Working postmaster@ and abuse@ mailboxes (RFC2822, RFC2142).
* IP ranges registered with AOL FBL, SpamCop and others.
* Domains registered with The Network Abuse Clearinghouse (abuse.net).

These are your main guidelines on keeping your IP address's off any Spam List. If your IP address is already on Spamhaus.org, and have already taken the proper measures to get taken off of there list than please read the information below:

When will Spamhaus.org remove my IP(s) from the SBL?

There are a few issues ISPs need to take care of before confirming that an SBL-listed spammer has been removed. Once the spammer is removed, the ISP should request removal by by sending a removal request to the SBL removal queue (click the "contact the SBL Team" mailto link on the bottom of each SBL listing page). While specifics of each listing vary, basically the spam problem must be completely stopped. Here are some of the steps for a general case of a spammer's dedicated account: the server needs to be taken down or disconnected (except if it concerns a virtual or shared server); any PTR entries need to be cleared or set back to its default setting; any DNS entries served by the ISPs main DNS servers for the SBL-listed customer should be cleared; the ISP's MX server should no longer accept mail for the SBL-listed customer; if the IP addresses were SWiP'd or in Whois, they should be removed or a request for removal to the RIR should have been made.

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