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Al Iverson
Personal blog · spamresource.comwebbusiness
Al Iverson writes Spam Resource: All Things Deliverability, a personal blog at spamresource.com about web and business. Since 2013, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-29, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked in a thread on a major internet slowdown and spam filtering. The one comment discusses DNS blocklists such as the SBL and whether they cause false positives. Comments do not judge the writing.
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Al Iverson helping email senders navigate the ever-changing world of deliverability, since 2001.
What Hacker News says?
Good point; I think both of our statements are true due to ambiguous wording upstream. I also took it literally, "any filter relying on the SBL" -- I use the SBL (via ZEN) but don't use SpamAssassin. And so my mail servers wouldn't block any domain that resolves to an IP address in the SBL, as described in the link you provided. As for DNSBL false positive rates, I haven't seen statistics in a few years, and by now…
Comment linking /2011/05/dnsbl-safety-report-5142011.html
on “Global Internet slows after 'biggest attack in history'”Submitted Don't send to Gmail over IPv6 as a story · 161 points
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