[SURBL-Discuss] A sincere request for help

Jeff Chan jeffc at surbl.org
Fri Jul 16 14:08:52 CEST 2004


On Wednesday, July 14, 2004, 10:06:17 AM, William Stearns wrote:
>         I'm asking everyone that uses any surbls (that includes anyone
> using the sa-blacklist.cf, sa-blacklist.uri.cf, ws.surbl.org, *.surbl.org,
> spamassasin 3.0, and spamassassin 2.x with spamcopuri) for help.  If you
> get any legitimate messages where one of the above mistakenly tagged the
> message as spam, _please_ let me know.  I would sincerely appreciate it if
> you'd send the message to me as an attachment (forwards or bounces are OK
> too) with "blacklist" somewhere in the subject (this skips around my spam
> filters; I don't want the autowhitelist to start tagging _you_ as a 
> spammer!).
>         I'm asking for your help because false positives hurt all of us.  
> I'd much rather have a blacklist with 3 domains I'm absolutely certain of 
> than a blacklist with 120,000 iffy domains.

We probably should have a clearinghouse for false positive
reports, since I'd like to get these too so I can whitelist them
globally in SURBLs.

Bill, can you forward me your FP list, or point me to a location
where I can get them in an automated way?

Jeff C.



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