On Sunday, September 26, 2004, 6:20:38 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
[please cc me, I'm not on this list]
Alex Broens [25/09/04 12:53 +0200]:
While I always read how reliable OB should be, of the few WL requests I've triggered, all except 1 were from OB.
These were pretty ugly ones indeed, an Adobe child site, a Genuine abused Webmail site, etc, etc.
Our data feed is rather larger than usual, being spam complaints from our users, from which we try to identify brand new domains that keep getting referenced in spam.
So, we block rather more domains than most people do.
Ham sites can get blocked - for example, an abused webmail site can and will be found in lots of spam reports and sometimes if the webmail service is new enough there will be zero ham for us to cross reference things with, as the site might have more bot created spammer users than regular / legit users.
If these get blocked, please let us know / feel free to whitelist and we'll investigate it (and fix it if it hasn't been fixed yet)
--srs
Thanks for your feedback on this. Have you guys looked into ways to prevent these from getting on your lists? For example, is the corpus of new additions small enough to be hand-checked?
Seems to me it's better to check first and block second. It's better to let a few spams in than to block legitimate mail, IMO.
Jeff C. -- "If it appears in hams, then don't list it."