It was brought to the attention of some SURBL contributors recently a reminder that we have to be careful not to list porn messages just because they are porn if little or no evidence of actual spamming is found. This is because SURBL is suppose to be a "spammer's URI" list, not an objectionable content list. There has always been a general agreement on this.
But this issue has reminded me to remind everyone to please, where applicable, send any porn domains which did NOT quite make the SURBL "spam threshold" over to MailPolice.com's "porn.rhs.mailpolice.com" list... especially the newer ones which might not already be there.
In fact, for the past 14 months, I've been slowly and diligently working on my own commercial spam filtering solution with which I hope to carve out a nitch area where I will especially appeal to families who are concerned about content as well as spam. Therefore, for my **own** filtering, porn is filtered out regardless of spamming issues and, therefore, MailPolice's porn list is a great addition to my filter. Other filters may choose to have a "family option" or "strict option" which would be ideal for "grownups" who struggle with porn addiction and/or great for families who want an extra layer of protection for their own children's e-mail accounts. This can catch porn outfits who spam "just below the radar" or it can catch them if/when they just start spamming. Of course, this is no substitute for linguistic filtering, for which I have one of the best porn filters ever. Of course, the real trick is to catch these without catching the dirty jokes that people send around to each other. (and I've gotten pretty good at blocking the former without blocking the latter in my linguistic filtering!)
Of course, this kind of filtering is not for everyone or every mail server!!! But I just want to make sure that you all know about MailPolice being a good place to send this stuff to when not deemed SURBL-material.
BTW - When I start selling my spam filtering service, it will be available here: http://Stop-Spam-Forever-Filter-Blocker.com (or, alternatively) http://StopSpamForever.com
But my web site for promoting my filter is not yet built :(
Finally, funny thing is... I don't know for sure **how** best to report porn domains to MailPolice. Jay Swackhamer <jswack at nebularis.com> is the contact there who provided the MailPolice-to-SURBL phishing data feed. Try him or perhaps Jeff or someone else has a suggestion or additional contact there?
Rob McEwen PowerView Systems Rob@PowerViewSystems.com
On Monday, August 22, 2005, 8:45:35 PM, Rob McEwen wrote:
It was brought to the attention of some SURBL contributors recently a reminder that we have to be careful not to list porn messages just because they are porn if little or no evidence of actual spamming is found. This is because SURBL is suppose to be a "spammer's URI" list, not an objectionable content list. There has always been a general agreement on this.
But this issue has reminded me to remind everyone to please, where applicable, send any porn domains which did NOT quite make the SURBL "spam threshold" over to MailPolice.com's "porn.rhs.mailpolice.com" list... especially the newer ones which might not already be there.
In fact, for the past 14 months, I've been slowly and diligently working on my own commercial spam filtering solution with which I hope to carve out a nitch area where I will especially appeal to families who are concerned about content as well as spam. Therefore, for my **own** filtering, porn is filtered out regardless of spamming issues and, therefore, MailPolice's porn list is a great addition to my filter. Other filters may choose to have a "family option" or "strict option" which would be ideal for "grownups" who struggle with porn addiction and/or great for families who want an extra layer of protection for their own children's e-mail accounts. This can catch porn outfits who spam "just below the radar" or it can catch them if/when they just start spamming. Of course, this is no substitute for linguistic filtering, for which I have one of the best porn filters ever. Of course, the real trick is to catch these without catching the dirty jokes that people send around to each other. (and I've gotten pretty good at blocking the former without blocking the latter in my linguistic filtering!)
Of course, this kind of filtering is not for everyone or every mail server!!! But I just want to make sure that you all know about MailPolice being a good place to send this stuff to when not deemed SURBL-material.
BTW - When I start selling my spam filtering service, it will be available here: http://Stop-Spam-Forever-Filter-Blocker.com (or, alternatively) http://StopSpamForever.com
But my web site for promoting my filter is not yet built :(
Finally, funny thing is... I don't know for sure **how** best to report porn domains to MailPolice. Jay Swackhamer <jswack at nebularis.com> is the contact there who provided the MailPolice-to-SURBL phishing data feed. Try him or perhaps Jeff or someone else has a suggestion or additional contact there?
Rob McEwen PowerView Systems Rob@PowerViewSystems.com
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The address I had for reporting spam to mailpolice was:
spam@mailpolice.com
But it may no longer work.
Jay would be the one you should probably ask.
Jeff C. -- Don't harm innocent bystanders.
Jeff Chan wrote:
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The address I had for reporting spam to mailpolice was:
spam@mailpolice.com
But it may no longer work.
It was broken for a while, but I reported it to them, and it was restored.
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