Rob McEwen wrote:
I think that Jeff is doing an excellent job, is very thorough, listens carefully to all sides and all evidence presented in disputes, and has excellent discernment and judgment.
Sure, I fully agree with this statement. And it's good to remove obvious errors and innocent bystanders from surbl lists manually. As far as possible, manual interventions always come after the fact.
And it's better to find technical solutions, e.g. a minimal number of sightings, because that's something working even without manual interventions.
But things start to get messy if Jeff defines some SpamCop reports manually as erroneous although the SC users and staff consider them as valid spam reports.
regarding the sex sites, this is a great idea because many businesses would prefer to block these types of e-mail.
On my main address XXX spam is very rare, and I doubt that a sex.surbl.org would help much. It's difficult to define spam, but my definition would try to avoid "content". Enlargement and viagra spam is not "better" than XXX spam, but far more popular.
Actually I'm not really worried about a sex.surbl.org as long as the source of the data is clear. I'm more worried about a SC.surbl.org not more reflecting the SC input data as defined on http://www.surbl.org/data.html
| many independent spam reports by SpamCop users are required | in order to get a domain onto the list [...] | few if any legitimate sites make it through the reporting | threshold and simple, short whitelist [...] | This is a democratic effect, improved by manual de-selection | of legitimate domains by SpamCop users when they submit their | reports. More reports means more votes that a given site is | indeed spam. The quality of data is reinforced by the | conscientious efforts of good people in reporting the spam. | In this sense it is democracy in action.
These are high standards, and if I report spamarrest.com, then this is my vote in this process. If there are enough votes for say spamarrest.com, and it's neither an error nor an innocent bystander, then the "democracy in action" should result in a host spamarrest.com.sc.surbl.org = 127.0.0.2
Bye, Frank