-----Original Message----- From: Jose Marcio Martins da Cruz [mailto:Jose-Marcio.Martins@ensmp.fr] Sent: Monday, November 15, 2004 3:50 PM To: Chris Santerre Cc: SM; SURBL Discussion list (E-mail); Jeff Chan Subject: Re: [SURBL-Discuss] Re: [SURBL-Announce] SURBL stats: list hit r a tes measured in DNS

Chris Santerre wrote:

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Thanks, but.....

These stats are pretty useless: STATS BY URL BL

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• ab.surbl 139803 38226
• j-chkmail 207945 54310
• multi.surbl 175657 54486
• ob.surbl 990 260
• sc.surbl 220 180
• ws.surbl 354 246

Because you said it goes by alphabet and stops at first hit.

Mutli.surbl

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contains everything in SC and WS. So everything after mutli

is of no use.

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You're wrong.

If some entries were found at WS and SC, this means that they aren't at MULTI.

Why ? There may be a race condition : as multi is created from other bls, it may be possible that when I rsync, SC and WS where already updated but not MULTI.

Quite interesting indeed...

I rsync data every two hours. It could be interesting to change periodicity and see what happens.

Well yeah, you could look at a rotten apple and see it as a chance to study penicillin as well ;)

So yeah, that would be the only explanation as to why there are any hits at all for those servers. But as general hit sites for those servers, those stats aren't going to help. Heck, it's only good for your first one :)

--Chris

Wait a minute! Whats a guy named Jose doing with a .fr TLD? ;)