Good day, all,
On Thu, 12 Aug 2004, Jeff Chan wrote:
On Thursday, August 12, 2004, 7:24:21 AM, William Stearns wrote:
On Thu, 12 Aug 2004, Jeff Chan wrote:
Here is a list of 130 domains that come from messages have been manually marked as "not spam" at a large but deliberately unnamed mail provider. We may want to consider whitelisting these.
I appreciate their taking the time to send these in, and your timeto take a look at them. I must admit a _little_ bit of agreement with Steve's position that a few of those look awfully spammy. I'm just as concerned about incoming whitelists that may have incorrect entries as incoming blacklists that may have incorrect entries. I'll do some hand-checking on these here. Is unnamed-ISP willing to provide the messages from which these were taken?
Thanks for checking since some may possibly be FPs. Some probably aren't.
This was apparently a first pass of some a data collection method and it may be imperfect. I certainly agree with you and Steve about the pill spammer, etc. And David Hooton already commented on some of the phishing hits.
I kind of doubt for privacy reasons that we'll be able to get the original messages. The person I got them from is on this list so perhaps they can let me know off list.
Then I might put a general request to that individual. Can you think of a way to provide some support to the entries you've submitted? We're in a bind here because we truly want to remove FP's. And again, we really _do_ appreciate your taking the time to help out. Cheers, - Bill
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