On Monday, October 10, 2005, 3:31:53 PM, Frank Ellermann wrote:
Raymond Dijkxhoorn wrote:
Stats is just samples anyway, doesnt give a complete image. So you better should not use it as a reference ;)
It's the input for sc.surbl.org, it's required to be reliable, see also http://www.surbl.org/data.html with its link to http://www.spamcop.net/w3m?action=inprogress;type=www
Yes the log file Frank referred to is the hits against the whitelist of new sc.surb.org additions. It's not the same as the whitelist hits of sample DNS queries into SURBL nameservice that Raymond may have been thinking of. Same whitelist, different context.
If "sc2" will have some shortcut resulting in essentially the same input it's of course fine,
It's not the same input; it's a direct, private database query into SpamCop. Some of the data may be the same, some may not be.
but public pages for users to check what happens with their "votes" are also very important.
There is no public page for sc2.
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And the day before yesterday there were numerous URLs with a reporting address postmaster#cc.yahoo-inc.com@devnull on this page, the same erroneous reporting address as for [see subject]
SpamCop is currently updating their contact address for Yahoo.
Really I don't want to talk about it further since these are the private arrangements between SpamCop and Yahoo. I have already said they are working on it and that will need to be enough.
The less we reveal to spammers the better.
But [see subject] didn't show up as a spamvertized URL, and so SURBL never saw it. That SpamCop glitch (or whatever it was) was unrelated to private or dev-nulled reporting addresses.
SpamCop is aware of the Geocities spams, just like anyone else. They are working on the reporting.
Jeff C. -- Don't harm innocent bystanders.