On Thursday, September 2, 2004, 10:29:04 AM, Rob McEwen wrote:
Instead, unconfirmed.surbl.org ought to be for those really hard to classify things that ARE getting NANAS hits, that DO hit spamtraps, but that have enough legitimate purposes to not get placed in the regular SURBL lists.
If this advice is not heeded, then unconfirmed.surbl.org will get too convoluted and too bulky to be effective.
I think that would tend to happen anyway. It's human nature to look for an easy place to dump things that are hard to categorize, and an unconfirmed list could easily become that, with all the negative consequences that go along with it.
That's not a slam on anyone here, just an acknowledgement of human nature.
Accurately putting records into a black (or white) list is sometimes difficult. That proves that the decisions are valuable. Just lumping things into a grey list cheapens those decisions and makes the results less valuable. Where we add value is in that decision making process. We should not diminish our value.
Jeff C.