On Tuesday, October 3, 2006, 6:25:48 AM, Joseph Brennan wrote:
I don't have time to report spam one by one. We reject 1.2 million a day and still get 2,000 spam reports a day. I would implement something automated. We look up URL hostnames in SURBL, URL IP addresses in Spamhaus, and under consideration now is looking up PTR for the IP and scoring as possible spam if it points to yahoo. The only question weighing how useful that test would be against the time to do DNS lookup.
Given that Yahoo is one of the larger web hosts in the world, it would seem that could result in some false positives. Also it's not clear if yahoo's own sites use similar IP space, but their own sites are quite frequently mentioned in hams. Therefore that test may not be too useful.
Reporting spams back to Yahoo is probably a good thing. I can't recall if they have feedback loops, etc., but sending correctly identified spams to their abuse address may help.
Jeff C. -- Don't harm innocent bystanders.