As part of an ongoing effort to consolidate spam message body URIs that were in sa-blacklist and BigEvil and MidEvil SpamAssassin rulesets, we have frozen be.surbl.org and merged its records into ws.surbl.org. Eventually the contents of be.surbl.org (and the list itself) may go away, so we ask that anyone using:

be.surbl.org

switch to:

ws.surbl.org

instead.

ws.surbl.org, in addition to getting the old be.surbl.org data and Bill Stearns' locally found data is also receiving spam URI domains from Chris Santerre and others. ws.surbl.org is becoming a collection point for those anti-spam efforts.

For those who wish to continue using SpamAssassin ruleset versions, Chris Santerre and the SARE Ninjas will let us know about future versions of BigEvil.cf and a successor wildcarded ruleset for use with SpamAssassin. (Chris, when you announce, please be sure to mention the relationships between the SURBL and ruleset versions of things so folks don't end up using both versions of the same data.)

For those looking for more efficient use of the sa-blacklist and old BigEvil and MidEvil rulesets, the SURBL version of most of their domains:

ws.surbl.org

may be a good solution. Using this data as SURBLs greatly reduces the server memory footprint over the ruleset versions, for example. That can make the data more practical to use on smaller computers, or generally make more efficient use of system resources on larger, busier servers. Using DNS for distributing the data, however, SURBLs do require network access. For a relatively few situations, this may be an issue.

More information about SURBLs can be found at:

http://www.surbl.org/

Please feel free to ask questions or leave comments about SURBLs on our discussion list at:

http://lists.surbl.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss

Please let us know about any false positives at:

whitelist at surbl dot org

Jeff C.