We have made the experimental SC2 data into the production SC
list. The new version has been tested to catch about 10% more
spam than the old version with no significant increase in false
positives.
Along with this change is the use of a new data engine which has
a shorter cycle time of 5 minutes, and a cleaner, more uniform
design and handling of data. This should reduce the overall
latency of new additions to the lists by many minutes.
Other resulting changes which may be of minor interest:
1. The list of lists hit for a given TXT record are now in
alphabetical order, e.g.:
Blocked, a-pill-MUNGED.com on lists [ab][jp][ob][sc][ws], See: http://www.surbl.org/lists.html
where before they were in bitmask or historical order.
2. Everyone should be using multi.surbl.org now and not the
individual lists, but the zone file serial numbers are now
synchronized so that multi will have the same serial number as
the most recently updated lists, e.g.:
ab.surbl.orgob.surbl.orgsc.surbl.orgws.surbl.orgmulti.surbl.org
1130799782 1130801582 1130799782 1130797982 1130801582
where ob was the only list updated in the most recent cycle
above, so ob and multi have the same serial number. In a
previous cycle, ab and sc were both updated at Unix (C) time
1130799782 and multi then would have shared that serial number,
etc.
Follow-ups, questions, comments, etc. to discuss@ lists.surbl.org
Cheers,
Jeff C.
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Jeff Chan
mailto:jeffc@surbl.org
http://www.surbl.org/
We'd like to welcome and thank the addition of a new public
SURBL name server n3.surbl.org administered by:
Niek Baakman from The Netherlands
Without our public nameservers and the help of their
administrators, SURBLs would not be possible.
Our thanks to Niek and all of them!
Jeff C.
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Jeff Chan
mailto:jeffc@surbl.org
http://www.surbl.org/
We'd like to welcome and thank the addition of a new public
SURBL name server m3.surbl.org administered by:
Brad Anderson of Habeas
Without our public nameservers and the help of their
administrators, SURBLs would not be possible.
Our thanks to all of them!
Jeff C.
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Jeff Chan
mailto:jeffc@surbl.org
http://www.surbl.org/