[SURBL-Discuss] UGH.. More false positives

Jeff Chan jeffc at surbl.org
Tue Dec 7 19:04:58 CET 2004


yahoo.com and hotmail.com were briefly on sc.surbl.org due a blank
line getting onto a whitelist.  That problem has since been
corrected and all the lists are working normally again.

Here's a little more info:

1. A blank line got into the whitelist due to some unexpected
input to a script.  That case is now handled at both an input
script and an output script.  It should be impossible again.
(UNIX join gets thwarted by blank lines.)

2. yahoo.com and hotmail.com were on the SpamCop spamvertised
site data.  People really should not be reporting these sites
to SpamCop.  Frankly the reporting users are being rather
careless in doing so since neither hotmail nor yahoo are
reportable spam URI destinations.  But that's why we have
whitelisting, etc. to clean those up.

With the whitelisting broken, they were getting through on
sc.surbl.org.  They don't appear on other SURBL lists, because
the other data sources would never deliberately list them.

It also means those were reported in sufficient quantity to
make it onto sc.surbl.org which currently requires 10 reports,
but in future will require many more (in a different style
of counting).

Jeff C.
--
"If it appears in hams, then don't list it."



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