[SURBL-Discuss] Whitelist Please

[Jeff Chan]

On Wednesday, September 8, 2004, 5:46:05 AM, Frank Ellermann wrote:
> Jeff Chan wrote:
 
>> On the other hand, people forward grey/hammy joke of the day,
>> image of the week, newsletter articles, etc. to friends all
>> the time.  Therefore we probably don't want to list those.

> In the case of SC it would be against SC's rules if I report a
> mail from a friend only because I don't like it.  Or in other
> words, if I report a "joke of the day" it wasn't sent by a
> "friend" (= somebody I know), and if I reported it ten times
> then I really got it ten times (catch-all vanity host, spam
> sent to Message-Ids or completely forged @xyzzy addresses)...

Yes, but the problem is that people report hams (non-spams)
to SpamCop all the time.

1.  If people report a spam that mentions ebay ten times to
SpamCop, should we blacklist ebay?  Of course not.

2.  Are they breaking the rules of SpamCop?  Probably.

3.  Does this actually happen?  Yes.

Therefore we need to be able to override the SpamCop reports
sometimes.  This is only a very tiny fraction of the cases.
It is only used in exceptional cases.

Jeff C.