On Sunday, October 3, 2004, 8:41:21 AM, Frank Ellermann wrote:
Jeff Chan wrote:
We know the guy behind the site is a piece of brown something.
The question is whether it has legitimate uses. I personally think these sites are mostly abusive scams, but I'd like to know if they have legitimate uses.
Please drop the idea that a site is either white or black. If it's an abusive scam, then nobody wants it in his inbox.
As the saying goes: if we wanted to block all spam we could list * . At this point we have some good spam sources and we need to find ways to eliminate false positives.
The best way to do that is to look for domains or IP addresses that one might expect to find in hams, and make sure those are not in the lists. Therefore we try to find records that may have legitimate uses and take them off the lists as errors.
We are not trying to "find every spammer." If we were, we could just list everything we ever find, but then we would have lists that were largely unusable.
I think it's important to share some goals if we are to have meaningful and useful results.
Jeff C. -- "If it appears in hams, then don't list it."