On Friday, August 12, 2005, 6:06:31 PM, William Stearns wrote:
On Fri, 12 Aug 2005, Rob McEwen wrote:
I can confirm that there is no chance that Geocities will ever get listed on SURBL because it is no the master white list.
Being on that list guarantees that it won't "accidentally" get on. In other words, if one of the many data feeders into SURBL suddenly fed Geocities .com into SURBL, it would NOT get listed because being on the master whitelist trumps all.
...but don't start asking about too many domains because the fear of getting onto SURBL is also an effective tool and I wouldn't want too many marginally listed entities (like fortune 500 companies who spam) to get too comfortable if they discovered that they were already on that whitelist :)
(not that it is necessarily that big of a secret... the whitelist might be publicly available? Jeff would know)
I'd rather it didn't, for the exact same reason as your previousparagraph. :-) Cheers, - Bill
Bill and Rob are right: we don't publish the SURBL whitelist.
We can't and won't blacklist geocities because it obviously has legitimate uses and could get mentioned in ham. Yahoo is aware they have abuse problems and have been asked to address them.
Jeff C. -- Don't harm innocent bystanders.