This is a reminder that we have taken the JP data out of WS and have deleted the WS and SC SURBL zone files form the SURBL web site, as previously announced last week. Here are some relevant parts of those announcements:

We will be removing the data in jp.surbl.org from ws.surbl.org on February 7th. If you are using SpamAssassin and don't already have a separate rule for JP, then please add one as described in the SURBL Quick Start:

http://www.surbl.org/quickstart.html

When SpamAssassin 3.1 is released, it will also include a separate rule for JP.

If you are using other programs, please check that they are using JP in addition to the other lists in multi. JP is bitmask 127.0.0.64 in multi.surbl.org and it has a relatively high spam detection rate and low false positive rate, so it's definitely worth using. More information can be found on the Lists page:

http://www.surbl.org/lists.html

I will be removing the partial set of SURBL zone files (SC and WS) from the SURBL web site by 7 February 2005. This will mainly effect users of Roger Eriksson's Windows command script which downloads the SC zone file using wget then checks SUBRL domains against message bodies in Declude JunkMail. It should not affect most other users of SURBLs, since other applications use the preferred DNS lookups to get SURBL data. This change does not affect SURBL name servers or name service, nor are any changes required to them or applications that use their services.

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As an alternative for users of the command script, SURBLs can be checked in Declude Junkmail using invURIBL, as mentioned in an earlier announcement, and the DNS method it uses is definitely preferred.

Here is that part of the earlier announcement:

12/31/04: Invariant Systems has written a Windows URI extraction tool invURIBL which can check message body URIs against SURBLs. It can be used standalone or as plugin to any Windows mail server that can call an external application and process the return code. For example, it is finding use with Declude for Imail.

http://www.invariantsystems.com/invURIBL/default.htm

Probably other plug-in type filters which support SURBLs can be used with Declude Junkmail and other similar mail programs.

http://www.surbl.org/links.html

Jeff C.