Paul Schwarz wrote:
Hi Guys, just wondered if using SURBL will block IT Dept, HR Dept and such newsletters that people get. We get a lot of those in our depts.
My users, lots of IT depts, haven't missed one due to SURBL. Mostly those newsletters are formated in a trashy way that Bayes or SA's rules can often be more of a problem than SURBL will ever be.
Also what are the chances of blocking a confirmation emails for something someone orders, etc And also Airlines
None of these ever seen in SURBL - again, the ugly formatting is more of a problem.
Dealing with a multinational, multlingual user base I'm often surprised how well SURBL is doing.
Just feeling a little leery of using SURBL for a risk of false positives. Seems like a lot of newsletters outsource to companies that could look like spammers.
I know it won't block and person to person email but can you help me feel more comfortable about SURBL ?
a method is to never block anything - start off with low level SURBL scores , review acording to scores, adapt SURBL scores to your needs and after a while, sit back and enjoy.
and IF there is SURBL FP, then the URL is gone in a couple of hours (if reported correctly)
The reporting policy is so strict that Jeff makes the reporter's life very miserable if he's caught. :-)
Alex