Well only one person mentioned URL blacklists in their presentation at MIT Friday. They simply mentioned they were one way to stop spam. (At one point I snuck up to the blackboard and wrote "SURBL.org" on it :)
However in the hallways and during breaks MANY people got excited by my name tag. "Oh you are from 'serbil'!" Yeah, I had no idea people said it like that. Sounds like gerbil with an 'S'!
Many people asked about hand checking and how we do it. I down played it an said we had a lot of data from another secret project that no one really know about. And that it helps us greatly. (I've BCC'd that project on this email so lets watch those replies people!!!)
Anyway, the word "secret" seems to send people into a feeding frenzy of questions and "Can I join?" verbal diarrhea. To which I have to say, "If everyone joined, it wouldn't be a secret!" I just found that interesting.
Lots of people happy with SURBL. And some possible connections of sharing data with other people. I'll speak more about that off list.
I'll make another post reviewing the whole MIT conference.
Chris Santerre System Admin and SARE/SURBL Ninja http://www.rulesemporium.com http://www.surbl.org 'It is not the strongest of the species that survives, not the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.' Charles Darwin