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Jeff Chan writes:
On Sunday, July 18, 2004, 2:48:54 AM, Raymond Dijkxhoorn wrote:
Thanks for sharing this idea and a free list of the relevant domains. I agree it's an interesting idea, though we've been focussed on spammer's URI domains so far, so it's a bit of a tangent.
At nearly 500k record we'd definitely want to do this with rbldnsd. BIND is already getting pretty slow with lists approaching 100k records. For comparison, sbl.spamhaus.org has about 5k records, xbl has about 1.7 million records, list.dsbl.org has nearly 4 million records. multi.surbl.org, our largest production list has about 45k records.
How does anyone else feel about turning this list of sex sites into a SURBL?
If its a seperate list, sure, would be great i think.
Yes, it would be a separate list.
I'm a little concerned that such a list could result in significant false positives *if misapplied*. While sex sites probably appears in a lot of spams, this would also be slightly off our charter of going specifically after spammer domains. In other words while some adult sites are probably major spammers, some probably aren't. On the other hand, I can see how it would be quite useful for general content blocking, including the novel suggestion to use SURBLs in squid web proxy caches. But it feels like some topic drift to me....
Anyone else have thoughts on this?
Good point.
I would suggest that if you set up a separate page on the website listing SURBLs that are specifically *not* necessarily spam-oriented, that'd be a good way to keep them separate and avoid people blindly throwing it into the spamfiltering mix.
- --j.