Jeff Chan wrote (munged by me):
Because
[see subject]
(or any com, net, org, etc.) is going to be reduced to the second level, i.e.,
[geocities DOT com]
before checking.
Of course I checked this on the WL hit page... http://spamcheck.freeapp.net/whitelist-hits.new.log.sort
It shows eight hits for the SLD and two hits for [see subject], all ten hits from 2004. The latter April 2004, so probably the removal of UK from the FQDN started to work after 04-16.
The last WL hit was 2004-12-07, and I'm sure that this must be wrong: The spam for [see subject] sometimes avoids the radar of my ISP, no ***SPAM*** tag, and then I often report spam manually, because it could be "fresh" (both for my ISP, but also for SURBL). Therefore that should show up on the WL hit list (= automatically rejected by SURBL).
But it doesn't, therefore something is wrong. I think it's a problem on SC's side, but with Murphy it could be also a PEBKAC (= I don't understand the WL hit list), or a double fault (= WL hit list doesn't work), or worse.
For starters I've now created a simple PURL to look up new "net-abuse" articles:
http://purl.net/net/abuse => Russ' nice net-abuse FAQ http://purl.net/net/abuse/ => partial redirect to fresh net-abuse excl. sightings http://purl.net/net/abuse/uk.geocities.com (see subject ;-)
Should also work with purl.org/net/abuse/whatever, bye, Frank