The '6dos' project domains have now been fed into ws.surbl.org. This is a huge collection of spam domains. The reason I did this now is the format is changing and it would have been a nightmare to do this later.
I briefly looked thru them, but there are a LOT. I expect a few FPs. But for the shear number of domains you can't beat it. I will remove any reported FPs. Bill if you want to whitelist some if I can't get to them right away, go ahead. I will post when I remove, or if they are spammers and the whitelist needs to be removed.
This is a great addition. And NO I can't tell you the source of the '6dos' project. You will just have to contact me with any questions :)
So the beast has been fed a proper dinner. Be ready for a few burps!
Chris Santerre System Admin and SARE Ninja http://www.rulesemporium.com http://www.surbl.org 'It is not the strongest of the species that survives, not the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.' Charles Darwin
On Monday, June 28, 2004, 12:31:24 PM, Chris Santerre wrote:
The '6dos' project domains have now been fed into ws.surbl.org. This is a huge collection of spam domains. The reason I did this now is the format is changing and it would have been a nightmare to do this later.
I briefly looked thru them, but there are a LOT. I expect a few FPs. But for the shear number of domains you can't beat it. I will remove any reported FPs. Bill if you want to whitelist some if I can't get to them right away, go ahead. I will post when I remove, or if they are spammers and the whitelist needs to be removed.
This is a great addition. And NO I can't tell you the source of the '6dos' project. You will just have to contact me with any questions :)
NO!!!!!!! DO NOT DO THIS.
Rich's list is way too big and inaccurate for our use in terms of false positives. It will ruin SURBLs and people's use of them.
The huge list is probably the reason Bill's server is choking now.
Jeff C.
On Monday, June 28, 2004, 2:28:11 PM, Jeff Chan wrote:
On Monday, June 28, 2004, 12:31:24 PM, Chris Santerre wrote:
The '6dos' project domains have now been fed into ws.surbl.org. This is a huge collection of spam domains. The reason I did this now is the format is changing and it would have been a nightmare to do this later.
I briefly looked thru them, but there are a LOT. I expect a few FPs. But for the shear number of domains you can't beat it. I will remove any reported FPs. Bill if you want to whitelist some if I can't get to them right away, go ahead. I will post when I remove, or if they are spammers and the whitelist needs to be removed.
This is a great addition. And NO I can't tell you the source of the '6dos' project. You will just have to contact me with any questions :)
NO!!!!!!! DO NOT DO THIS.
Rich's list is way too big and inaccurate for our use in terms of false positives. It will ruin SURBLs and people's use of them.
The huge list is probably the reason Bill's server is choking now.
I have temporarily disabled processing of ws.surbl.org, copying be.surbl.org to it as a placeholder.
I will not re-enable processing of ws.surbl.org until the 6dos data is removed from the list. Does anyone have Bill's phone number?
Jeff C.
I spoke with Bill Stearns and Chris Santerre separately by phone, and what we came up with is to put the 6dos data into a new, separate list, reflecting that it's a larger data source with a different philosophy behind it. It tends to be more inclusive than some of the other lists, meaning it may have greater potential for false positives. And at about 80,000 entries, it's clearly a larger list then our others, which currently max out at about 20,000 for ob and ws (natively). The 80,000 records in 6dos probably have *not* been hand-checked.
Chris expressed that he's becoming more comfortable using 6dos since the author has been adding some more cross-checking of the data, but we all agreed the data may be better in a separate list. Maybe I'll call it 6d or 6dos.surbl.org.
By the way Bill's server is being worked on right now, so we don't have the ability to update ws to disable the 6dos inclusion. Chris will do that when he's able to next.
Until then I've reverted ws.surbl.org to an older version of the list that I had from three days ago. That should be reasonably close to the pre-6dos version that was being served before.
Jeff C.
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