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Email Spam Blacklists




When dealing with the Internet and Computers, a blacklist is usually an access control mechanism that prevents members one a certain list (called a the blacklist) from using a resource.

Often, in order to fight email spam, a system administrator will install a blacklist to prevent known abusers from being able to send email through their system or even to anyone hosted on their system.

The opposite is a whitelist, which means prevent EVERYONE from using this resource, except members of the white list. As a sort of middle ground, a greylist serves as a temporary blacklist that could be used, for example, to block poorly-configured electronic mail clients that may be used to send undesirable electronic mail.

One of the goals of SpamAlert.org is to use specially designed software to log and build a list of spammers into a comprehensive blacklist. Eventually we will be offering a download of known spammers which can be added to your email defences to lower the amount of spam you receive.

In time, as our blacklist proves itself to be effective in battling online spam, and more and more people use the SpamAlert Blacklist, we'll have an extra tool that can be used to make spammers less effective.

Here is a list of other blacklists that are available. Some are more effective than others.

Spamhaus Block List (SBL) - All IPs on the SBL belong to known spammers, spam gangs, or spam support services. The SBL includes IPs from both the ROKSO database and IPs of spam services listed in the Spamhaus database.
Composite Blocking List (CBL) - The CBL is a DNSBL which takes its source data from very large spamtraps, and lists IPs of open proxies and worms/viruses.
The Spamhaus Project Register of Known Spam Operations (ROKSO) - The Spamhaus Project's Register Of Known Spam Operations (ROKSO) Database. ROKSO collates evidence on known hard-line spam outfits that have been thrown off Internet Service Providers over three times.
MAPS Realtime Blackhole List (RBL) - Lists email sites which have refused to limit their relaying, leaving the potential for their use as spam gateways.
Mail Abuse Prevention System - MAPS aims to defend the Internet from spammers by educating ISPs and providing real time blocking lists of known spam sources.
rfc-ignorant.org - The home for domains who don't play by the rules. A number of lists (at present "dsn", "abuse", "postmaster", "whois" and "ipwhois") which contain domains or IP networks whose administrators choose not to obey the RFC's, the building block "rules" of the net.
Distributed Server Boycott List (DSBL.org) - This list contains email servers which are non-secure and potentially servers with dumb and/or malicious users. It is purely composed of data DSBL receives; DSBL should never send out data by itself.
Spam Prevention Early Warning System (SPEWS) - SPEWS maintains a list of known spam sources and spam friendly hosts so that e-mail can be rejected from these problem sites.
The Abusive Hosts Blocking List (AHBL) - Publishes a list of known abusive hosts (open relays, open proxies, spam sources, DoS drones, and more) in various forms including a DNSbl.
MAPS Dial-up User List (DUL) - An IP blacklist of dialup-using "stealth" spammers and email trespassers.
Spam & Open Relay Blocking System (SORBS) - Lists Open Relays and Open Proxies (Open HTTP Proxy Servers and Open SOCKS Proxy Servers). SORBS only scans a host when it attempts to send mail to one of the feeder servers.
Spambag.org - Personal (DNSBL) list of abusive networks that the author blocks from sending mail or accessing his web servers.
SpamCop - Blocking List Information - This list contains IP addresses which have been reported to SpamCop as carriers of spam (source of e-mail or verified, open relay). Some of these reports now come from spamtraps (email addresses used strictly to receive spam).
MAPS Relay Spam Stopper (RSS) - The RSS is a list of email relays which have been used to send spam, for use in blocking spam by blocking mail which have gone through those sites.
Not Just Another BlackList (NJABL.ORG) - Spam blocking blacklist of open relays, dial-ups, and direct spam sources.
Five Ten - Local Black - Blacklist that includes dialup equivalent ip addresses, individual spam sources, netblocks that refuse to remove spammers, bulk mailers that don't require confirmed opt-in, output servers from multi-stage open relay chains and single stage open relays not listed on ORBZ.
ip4r (DNSBL-style) DNS lookups - List, in table form, of blacklists. Includes table with the name of the blacklists, their lookup domains, the IP that is returned in case of a match and a description.
bl.csma.biz - Spam Blacklist - As a public service, McFadden Associates maintains a free DNSBL blacklist. Anyone sending SPAM into their mail filters is automatically added for a period of thirty days.
MailPolice RHS-BL - RHS-style lists of domains which have sent spam to MailPolice customers. Currently divided into two lists, bulk senders - domains associated with bulk mail - and pornography - domains associated with sending and hosting pornographic content.
AntiSpam DNSBL - Identifies spam sources - whether intentional or not - at the time they are sending spam. Not before and not after.
The South Korea Blocking List - Blocking list to filter out Korean spam.
Spamikaze - Automated spam blocklist system, designed to block spam at the SMTP level.
Better Ethics Online - Publishes black list of spammers and seeks to promote online ethics.
Drbcheck: Dr. Jørgen Mash's DNS Database List Checker - Lists all DNSbl's (RBL's) and enables users to make a query against all the lists.
Blacklists Compared - Weekly reports of DNS blacklists lookups of IP addresses (and reverse DNS lookups) that made SMTP connections to the San Diego Supercomputer Center on that week. Useful for getting a grasp of the size of the various blacklists. Maintained by Jeff Makey.
Clueless Mailers - Offers background information on the worst of the new Internet abusers.
Spamware Vendor List - List of live spamware sites and related links.
Blockalert - Provides reports on whether there is recent spam activity within each IP block, especially spamvertised web site addresses. Check if you are sharing your address block with spammers.
Blacklist of Internet Advertisers - To curb inappropriate advertising on usenet newsgroups and via junk e-mail.
UCE Protect Network - Attempt to generate a free realtime black list of spammer IP numbers.
Whois-Details for Blacklisted Spam Domains - List of domains that have been advertised via spam, with name server, registration date, registrant. This list is updated daily.
Blackholes.us - Publishing a variety of DNS blocklists including entire countries and ISP's.
Chinese and Korean Net - Lists IP blocks of China and Korea for those who want to avoid asian spam.
Electric Eye Ultimate Banned List - A manually updated and verified online database of spammers. Provides email address and domain blocklist.
Blitzed IRC Network (OPM.BLITZED.ORG) - A dnsbl of open proxies (HTTP, Socks and wingate), populated by IRC connection scanners and spamtraps.
Spambag of the Month - Makes examples of people who feel the need to send unsolicited emails. Sample emails and follow-up information.
Spam Support Permanent Blocklist - A permanent blocklist of spam supporting web hosts and ISPs.


 


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