Sendmail Blackhole List - Eliminate Most Spam

To configure sendmail to automatically bounce most spam use one of the countless blackhole lists that are readily available, and consistently maintained:

http://www.declude.com/Articles.asp?ID=97

An excellent blackhole list is maintained by njabl.org. Use is relatively straight forward. Add the following line to the end of your sendmail.mc file, then recompile the sendmail configuration file.

FEATURE(dnsbl,`combined.njabl.org',`Message from $&{client_addr} rejected - see http://njabl.org/lookup?$&{client_addr}')

For more detailed information on how to use this blackhole list you can visit their website directly:

http://njabl.org/use.html

I used to get well over 150 spam messages per day. Now I maybe get 5 total

Blog Top List

There are many blog top lists on the internet, and they are very powerful once a blog reaches a certain visitor quantity threshold. Once a blog has breached page 2, or even page 1 hits start to come. These blog top lists are also extremely valuable for broadcasting particular posts. Because most blog top lists allow tag searching the more posts you write the more posts that will show up in blog top list searchers. One of the more popular blog top lists, that happens to have a powerful Google Page Rank is:

http://www.blogtoplist.com