-----Original Message----- From: Bill Landry [mailto:billl@pointshare.com] Sent: Friday, October 08, 2004 3:26 PM To: SURBL Discussion list Subject: Re: [SURBL-Discuss] Revised DMOZ data, got Wikipedia domains too
----- Original Message ----- From: "Ryan Thompson" ryan@sasknow.com
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. :-)
I have been tracking my hits from UC, and although the hit rate if fairly low compared to most of the SURBL lists, it has been giving me good results and hitting things I would consider spam. And as such, I have the test currently weighted at 0.5.
Bill
LOL, thats cause UC just ain't that big yet. I keep trying to keep up with all the domains Jeff keeps whitelisting, but he's like some sort of mad robot on overdrive ;)
--Chris (Good grief I've been hungry all day!)
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Chris Santerre