[SURBL-Discuss] Whitelist discussion

[Jose Marcio Martins da Cruz]

I'm already exchanging my whitelist with Jeff.

About some French providers  to be whitelisted :

yahoo.fr
google.fr
wanadoo.fr
free.fr
club-internet.fr
voila.fr
9telecom.fr
tiscali.fr
laposte.net
tele2.fr
noos.net
noos.fr
noos.net
numericable.net
nubericable.fr

Three others I added yesterday :

yeyey.com

123.com
all.bg


Jose-Marcio

Jeff Chan wrote:
> On Thursday, May 13, 2004, 9:06:01 AM, William Stearns wrote:
> 
>>On Thu, 13 May 2004, Chris Santerre wrote:
> 
> 
>>>So what do we do with candidates for whitelists? Also, what do we do with
>>
> 
>>        My suggestion is that each of us maintains a file of whitelist 
>>domains (I'm defining those as "domains that should never be blacklisted", 
>>such as generic ISPs, free web site providers, etc; see my document from a 
>>week or so back).  Those whitelists will all be checked as part of Paul's 
>>new project.
> 
> 
> I'd like to get ahold of any thoroughly checked whitelists to use
> to prevent white and grey domains from getting onto SURBLs, so
> let's share them if we can do it safely.
> 
> 
>>>things that should NOT be whitelisted, but NOT reported as spam? Examples
>>>are cacheing services. Which are often used by spammers for images, but
>>>legit as well. 
>>
> 
>>        Caching services (akamai) and redirectors (msn, yahoo) go in the 
>>same category for me; they get whitelisted because they can be used by 
>>spam and legitimate mail.
> 
> 
> Agreed.  I do the same.
> 
> 
>>I juts removed the last vestiges of yahoo's 
>>redirectors from the sa-blacklist this morning; I figure that the surbl 
>>parsing code needs to handle those; if those packages do their job right, 
> 
> 
>>http://rd.yahoo.com/*http://bigspammer.com
> 
> 
>>        should show up as a query for bigspammer.com to the surbl lists.
>>        I'm maintaining a file of redirector examples and have sent off 
>>previous versions of that file to Justin and Erik.
> 
> 
> Exactly.  The parsing code needs to find the real spammer domain.
> Where it can't or if it queries on the redirectors, we need to
> whitelist the redirection sites (actually their domains) to
> prevent the redirection sites from being used to tag a message as
> spam. 
> 
> 
>>http://www.stearns.org/sa-blacklist/redirector-examples.current.txt
> 
> 
> Looks good.  I have those on my whitelist:
> 
> msn.com
> yahoo.com
> aol.com
> google.ca
> free.fr
> google.com
> ebay.com
> 
> 
>>>I think images.exactis.com is one. And of course we have all the akamai.net
>>>servers. 
>>
> 
>>        I already have exactis.com and akamai.com/akamaitech.net on my 
>>whitelist.
> 
> 
> Had the akamais on my whitelist, but not exactis.com.  Added.
> 
> Jeff C.
> 
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