[SURBL-Discuss] Revised DMOZ data, got Wikipedia domains too

Chris Santerre csanterre at merchantsoverseas.com
Fri Oct 8 18:28:44 CEST 2004



>-----Original Message-----
>From: Alex Broens [mailto:surbl at alexb.ch]
>Sent: Friday, October 08, 2004 11:53 AM
>To: Jeff Chan; SURBL Discussion list
>Subject: Re: [SURBL-Discuss] Revised DMOZ data, got Wikipedia domains
>too
>
>
>Jeff Chan wrote:
>>   http://spamcheck.freeapp.net/whitelists/wikipedia-dmoz.srt
>> 
>> Please also take a look at these blocklist hits (potential FPs)
>> and share what you think:
>> 
>>   
>http://spamcheck.freeapp.net/whitelists/wikipedia-dmoz-blocklis
>t.summed.txt
>> 
>> Would there be many FNs (missed spams) if we whitelisted all
>> of these?  In other words are these all truly False Positives?
>> If not, which ones do you feel are true spammers and why.
>
>probably not a new idea, but why not run a "wl.surbl.org" with all the 
>whitelisted domains and ppl can choose to use it or not.
>
>

IMHO More traffic and scan time. Better to just ignore having them in the
list. 

Also things like Yahoo, AOL, ect... will most likely have SA code to not
even bother to look those up. 

--Chris


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