Hi Jeff, At 20:51 06-04-2005, Jeff Chan wrote:
For SURBLs we don't want to have false positives or harm innocent bystanders. Other lists may have other policies. For example
This sums up the SURBL listing policy.
Part of the difficulty is that different people have different ideas about what consitutes spam. Some people think anyone who
The discussion here is more about what to do about bystanders who are used to send out spam. Most antispam techniques are quite effective at the beginning. That rate drops as spammers come up with ways to circumvent the technique. SURBL has introduced a grey area where redirectors are used to send out a url. Given SURBL's listing policy, these domains won't be listed as it causes false positives. There is no incentive for domains which fall in the grey area to fix their redirectors.
Regards, -sm