[SURBL-Discuss] whitelist senderbase top domains?

[Mariano Absatz]

On Thu, 9 Sep 2004 04:07:40 -0700, Jeff Chan <jeffc at surbl.org> wrote:
> On Wednesday, September 8, 2004, 12:44:34 AM, Bill Landry wrote:
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Jeff Chan" <jeffc at surbl.org>
> 
> >> Looks like senderbase.org has a database of the domains and IPs
> >> used to send the most mail.  Normally that would not be too
> >> interesting to us since we care about message body URIs, i.e.
> >> content, and not senders or their ISP addresses, but I'm thinking
> >> about whitelisting all the legitimate NSPs, ISPs and telcos in
> >> their top domains list:
> >>
> >>   http://www.senderbase.org/search?page=domains
> >>
> >> we would exclude the few that appear to be spammers according to
> >> spamhaus:
> >>
> >>   imgmailer.com         TAM Network
> >>   stocksntalk.com       iMedia Networks Inc.
> >>   havagreatday.com
> >>
> >> But I'd like to whitelist all the rest which are obviously
> >> large ISPs, etc.  In essence we're just using it as a list
> >> of some of the top ISPs in the world.
> >>
> >> Does anyone have any comments on this?
> 
> > I like this idea as I believe it would cut down the number of
> > false-positives due to false-listings.
> 
> >> Note that this won't have a major effect on bad guys since
> >> spammers would not have much incentive to advertise their ISPs,
> >> and we don't "whiten" spams for mentioning non-spam domains
> >> anyway.  It also does not mean that we're whitelisting the ISP
> >> address space, senders, or anything like that, just mail that
> >> mentions these large ISP URIs.
> 
> Does anyone else have comments about whitelisting the ISP
> and NSP domains mentioned on the senderbase top domains page?
> 
> To repeat, this would only be listing the ISP and NSP's own
> domains.  It does not mean whitelisting their customers, their
> IP space, their name servers, the mail servers, etc.
> 
I'm fine with this... with the provision that if an ISP proves to be
just plain black, it can be removed from the WL...


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