Jeff Chan said:
The reality is that the gray areas are often the most troublesome for only a small return, and the clearly professional spammers are likely responsible for a lot more of the spam than the occasionally rogue or abused quasi-legitimate company. So the professional spammers are probably a more important to focus on catching.
I'd still like to hear anyone else's comments on a sex/adult SURBL. It would be a separate list, and could be useful, but I'm somewhat concerned about the potential for misuse.
Comments?
Jeff C.
Hi Jeff, I'm all for having a seperate list for sex/adult sites. One of the major reasons I became more involved in mail filtering was the HR folks at work becomming worried about the possiblilty of sexual harrasment lawsuits based on companies not doing anything about pornograhpic spam messages. While a surbl list for adult sites is not something that an ISP should implement, I see it as a great tool for corporate or individual use.
As long as the test is not installed by default, but instead the admins must manually setup the test, it should cut down the on the potenial for misuse. If an admin goes into his local.cf and creates a rule to check sex.surbl.org, well then they get what they deserve...whether that is a useful tool or a bunch of pissed off customers, thats up to them.
my $0.02
-matt