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/
We'd like to welcome and thank the addition of a new public
SURBL name server d1.surbl.org administered by:
Wim Biemolt of SURFnet bv
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/
We'd like to welcome and thank the addition of a new public
SURBL name server a3.surbl.org administered by:
Michele Neylon of blacknight.ie
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/
From: Erik Mugele
Date: Sunday, May 1, 2005, 6:54:04 PM
Subject: Exim/SURBL Script Problems
I introduced an error into the last version of the SURBL Perl script
for Exim. The error didn't have anything to do with the whitelisting
but was a result of me messing with the code.
In short, only the fully qualified domain was being checked and
nothing else. So, for example, if the URL was http://www.teuton.orgwww.teuton.org was the only thing being checked but not teuton.org. I
noticed this when several pieces of spam slipped in.
This problem was introduced in version 1.1 when I added whitelisting
and I have released version 1.2 to fix the problem.
Web page has been updated:
http://www.teuton.org/~erik/docs/exim_surbl.shtml
Erik
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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 i1.surbl.org administered by:
Iain Wade of optusnet.com.au
Without our public nameservers and the help of their
administrators, SURBLs would not be possible.
Our thanks to all of them!
Jeff C.
--
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 f3.surbl.org administered by:
Carlos Horowicz of argentina.com
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/
We'd like to welcome and thank the addition of a new public
SURBL name server g3.surbl.org administered by:
Panagiotis Christias of National Technical University
of Athens in Greece
Without our public nameservers and the help of their
administrators, SURBLs would not be possible.
Our thanks to all of them!
Jeff C.
P.S. We could still use some help with public DNS. If you
have a network that can handle an extra 200k bits per second
to megabit of traffic and a server to run rbldnsd, please
contact me. rbldnsd is very efficient so the server
requirements are relatively minimal.
--
Jeff Chan
mailto:jeffc@surbl.org
http://www.surbl.org/