Chris Santerre wrote to 'surbl@alexb.ch' and 'SURBL Discussion list':
I wouldn't appreciate it being whitelisted as then if there's abuse, and it does get blacklisted, there's no pressure on the domain holder to clean up.
I'm hoping UC list will help with that. Anyone who wishes to use it can add a minor score to spam for UC hits. This would put at least some sort of preasure for these grey hats to do something.
Ezzactly. Even if it's worth 0.1 points in SA (or something), the stigma of having one's domain listed in some sort of bad "list" might be enough to promote action, provided the accuracy of UC is quite good. (I.e., we definitely still don't want to list everything :-) "Quite good" in that case probably means < 1% FP, but I think we can do even better than that with a few clever tricks.
Personally, I'm hoping UC will be worth more than 0.1 even with a somewhat higher FP rate, since there will be little or no overlap with other SURBL tests, but that'll depend on some mass-checks. :-)
- Ryan