on Wed, Sep 01, 2004 at 01:31:25PM -0700, Jeff Chan wrote:
The reason for whitelisting all of them is that they all belong to euniverse. While I agree that these "spam to your friends with jokes, greetings, prayers, whatever" sites are stupid and highly abuse-prone, they do have some legitimate uses and should probably not be blocked globally.
Let's all try not to lose sight of the fact that SURBL is not a "block all spam" service. It is a list of domains known never to appear in any legitimate mail. If flowgo/euniverse/killer26374medzpilz.bix/whoever is a spamhaus with fixed IP space, we'll block them anyway, with a broad mix of antispam tools. If they're spamming through zombies, SURBL may be useful to help stop them or not. But let's not make SURBL into a "version two" antispam system, trying to solve every problem, or we'll spend even more time arguing here. I like SURBL because it covers the last 2% of the spam that my filters don't catch, but lets me quarantine it so I can figure out why my other filters didn't catch it. I'd never use SURBL for rejecting mail, that'd be a potential source of backscatter for innocent victims of joe jobs given my setup here, and probably given the setups of many other folks here.