On Wednesday, October 13, 2004, 9:30:52 PM, Rob McEwen wrote:
Would anyone like to help check these potential FP domains?
The list in the URL is larger than the list in your post. I presume because the list in your post excludes those which have since been whitelisted?
Anyway, I ran a "rule" on my spam filter which would archive any e-mail going to my server which had any of these domains in the body of the message. About 7,000 messages go though my server daily (~40% legit/~60% spam). Over the course of at least a few days, not a single message (ham or spam) contained any of the domains in that list.
Also, to be sure, I tested it by sending myself an e-mail with one of these domains in it and, sure enough, the message DID get copied to the correct folder for review... but, as I said, no "real" messages going through my mail server contained any of these domains over the course of 4 or 5 days.
I finally turned that particular "rule" off this morning.
Absent compelling evidence otherwise, I'd suggest at least removing these from SURBL... maybe even whitelisting if there are no other objections and if they don't have SpamHaus records.
Rob McEwen
Thanks Rob, Yes, the list in the URL was from all of the SURBL hits against the top percentile of mentions in Wikipedia and DMOZ. About half of them were already whitelisted as free hosting sites thanks to Ryan checking on them.
Thanks for the feedback about the entire list not appearing in several of messages days to your server.
Since I may not have access to the actual data sources on these, I may not be able to remove them (or see spams for them) and would therefore need to whitelist them to get them out of SURBLs.
Also presumably someone had a reason for listing these in the first place, so we should probably research them to confirm spammyness or not before whitelisting. I'll do it if no one else would like to help, but would appreciate some help from others....
They (or I :-) should probably make use of the policy we're about to publish for manual listing:
http://www.surbl.org/policy.html
Jeff C. -- "If it appears in hams, then don't list it."