SORBS Status: Shutting Down or For Sale

As reported on Spamtacular and on SORBS' website:

"ANNOUNCEMENT: Possible SORBS Closure... It comes with great sadness that I have to announce the imminent closure of SORBS. The University of Queensland have decided not to honor their agreement with myself and SORBS and terminate the hosting contract.

Status of dnsbl.net.au: DEAD

The blocking list at dnsbl.net.au has announced it is winding down. As noted in a February 25, 2009 posting on its website, "Please note that as of Wednesday, April 1, 2009 the DNSBL.NET.AU blacklist will cease to exist."

As of this writing on April 29th, 2009, I do still see active entries when querying via DNS, but I assume that these are likely to go away soon. If you utilize this list, I'd recommend removing it from your MTA or spam filter configuration.

Status of DSBL: DEAD

The DNSBL called "DSBL" is no more. As of March 11, 2009, their website reports: "DSBL is GONE and highly unlikely to return. Please remove it from your mail server configuration."

Shutting Down Blocklists

As I often do, today I'm receiving reports about a DNSBL (which I've previously warned was dead) is returning false positive entries for those still using it today.

What does this mean?

Security Sage Update

It seems today as though the Security Sage domains have expired and/or replaced by "placeholder" pages by their registrar. Net result: Bad things. If you were still using their BL, you're probably having problems receiving inbound mail right about now.