-----Original Message----- From: Alex Broens [mailto:surbl@alexb.ch] Sent: Thursday, September 30, 2004 3:35 PM To: SURBL Discussion list Subject: Re: [SURBL-Discuss] FP: smithbarney.com
Rob McEwen wrote:
FP: smithbarney.com
(followup comments)
I was trying to think... how did this one get on there? It
seems like it
just barely missed the various institutional-based whitelists.
I did a search of this on alexa.com and their site is ranked
just inside the
top 20,000 web sites.
SEE: http://www.alexa.com/data/details/?url=smithbarney.com
Then I thought, wouldn't it be interesting to run the top
20,000 Alexa sites
against SURBL... double-check whichever of these are
currently getting
"caught" by SURBL. Remove any which should be removed, (I'm
sure at least a
few would remain in SURBL??). Then whitelist all of the 20k
that haven't
been specifically determined as needing to remain in SURBL.
Guys...... SURBL is used by the world, not only the US
Alexa.com doesn't have the best of reputations on this side of the pond.
Their Privacy Policy is dubious:
ALEXA'S TOOLBAR SERVICE COLLECTS AND STORES INFORMATION ABOUT THE WEB PAGES YOU VIEW, THE DATA YOU ENTER IN ONLINE FORMS AND SEARCH FIELDS, AND, WITH VERSIONS 5.0 AND HIGHER, THE PRODUCTS YOU PURCHASE ONLINE WHILE USING THE TOOLBAR SERVICE. ALTHOUGH ALEXA DOES NOT ATTEMPT TO ANALYZE WEB USAGE DATA TO DETERMINE THE IDENTITY OF ANY ALEXA USER, SOME INFORMATION COLLECTED BY THE TOOLBAR SERVICE IS PERSONALLY IDENTIFIABLE. ALEXA AGGREGATES AND ANALYZES THE INFORMATION IT COLLECTS TO IMPROVE ITS SERVICE AND TO PREPARE REPORTS ABOUT AGGREGATE WEB USAGE AND SHOPPING HABITS.
more @ http://pages.alexa.com/help/privacy.html
Pls don't force whitelisting more than necessary, or put these domains in your site's whitelist but spare us whitelisting their associates as much as possible
Alex
I agree. smithbarney should NEVER have been added! Whitelist them. Flogg the person that added them.
--Chris (*brakes out the ridding crop*)