Good day, Chris, all,
On Thu, 13 May 2004, Chris Santerre wrote:
So what do we do with candidates for whitelists? Also, what do we do with
My suggestion is that each of us maintains a file of whitelist domains (I'm defining those as "domains that should never be blacklisted", such as generic ISPs, free web site providers, etc; see my document from a week or so back). Those whitelists will all be checked as part of Paul's new project.
things that should NOT be whitelisted, but NOT reported as spam? Examples are cacheing services. Which are often used by spammers for images, but legit as well.
Caching services (akamai) and redirectors (msn, yahoo) go in the same category for me; they get whitelisted because they can be used by spam and legitimate mail. I juts removed the last vestiges of yahoo's redirectors from the sa-blacklist this morning; I figure that the surbl parsing code needs to handle those; if those packages do their job right,
http://rd.yahoo.com/*http://bigspammer.com
should show up as a query for bigspammer.com to the surbl lists. I'm maintaining a file of redirector examples and have sent off previous versions of that file to Justin and Erik. http://www.stearns.org/sa-blacklist/redirector-examples.current.txt
I think images.exactis.com is one. And of course we have all the akamai.net servers.
I already have exactis.com and akamai.com/akamaitech.net on my whitelist. As I stated in the reviewer guidelines document, bigevel/sa-blacklist/*.surbl.org are _not_ responsible for catching _every_ spam. If a message has no URL's at all (nigeria/diploma), or has only urls that end up at geocities/angelfire/akamai/exactis, we can't do anything about those. Some other piece of the spam recognition puzzle will get them. Cheers, - Bill
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