[SURBL-Discuss] The beast has been fed. 6dos now in WS.surbl. org

[Chris Santerre]

Agreed. But I still think you should leave the updated version up ;)

Here is what I added:
http://www.merchantsoverseas.com/domains-1.tar.gz

link good until 2 PM tomorrow.

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Jeff Chan [mailto:jeffc at surbl.org]
>Sent: Monday, June 28, 2004 7:35 PM
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>Subject: Re: [SURBL-Discuss] The beast has been fed. 6dos now in
>WS.surbl.org
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>
>I spoke with Bill Stearns and Chris Santerre separately by
>phone, and what we came up with is to put the 6dos data into a
>new, separate list, reflecting that it's a larger data source
>with a different philosophy behind it.  It tends to be more
>inclusive than some of the other lists, meaning it may have
>greater potential for false positives.  And at about 80,000
>entries, it's clearly a larger list then our others, which
>currently max out at about 20,000 for ob and ws (natively).
>The 80,000 records in 6dos probably have *not* been hand-checked.
>
>Chris expressed that he's becoming more comfortable using 6dos
>since the author has been adding some more cross-checking of the
>data, but we all agreed the data may be better in a separate
>list.  Maybe I'll call it 6d or 6dos.surbl.org.
>
>By the way Bill's server is being worked on right now, so
>we don't have the ability to update ws to disable the 6dos
>inclusion.  Chris will do that when he's able to next.
>
>Until then I've reverted ws.surbl.org to an older version of
>the list that I had from three days ago.  That should be
>reasonably close to the pre-6dos version that was being
>served before.
>
>Jeff C.
>
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