[SURBL-Announce] Individual SURBL lists to be shut down on public nameservers February 28, 2009. Use multi.
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Mon Mar 2 05:18:01 CET 2009
On 2/4/09, Jeff Chan <jeffc at surbl.org> wrote:
> For historical reasons, the SURBL public nameservers were serving
> individual lists ab, sc, ob and ws in addition to multi. However
> these individual lists have all been deprecated in favor of multi for
> several years since multi contains all lists. Traffic for the
> individual lists is relatively very low, and no one should be using
> them any more, so in order to reduce unnecessary and redundant network
> traffic we will be turning off public nameservice for the individual
> lists on February 28th, 2009.
>
> Everyone should be using multi.surbl.org instead, and this has been
> the case for many years now. Therefore if anyone is using the
> individual lists, please stop doing so and use multi instead. A
> single query to multi will check all SURBL lists.
>
> http://www.surbl.org/lists.html
Per the earlier announcement, the individual list zones have been
undelegated. Please use multi.surbl.org, which is now the only
production list.
SpamAssassin versions 3 and later correctly use multi by default.
Earlier versions of SpamAssassin should probably be upgraded to
version 3.
Cheers
Jeff C.
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