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

[Jeff Chan]

On Friday, October 8, 2004, 9:26:37 AM, Bill Landry wrote:
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Alex Broens" <surbl at alexb.ch>

>> 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-blocklist.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.

> I like this idea!  Whitelist the most commonly used 1,000 or so domains, and
> then create a wl.surbl.org for the rest of the wikipedia-dmoz domains.

As Chris mentions, applications using SURBLs are being udpated
to not even check the top N whitehat domains like yahoo, w3.org,
etc:

  http://bugzilla.spamassassin.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3805
  http://bugzilla.spamassassin.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3886

That way they don't even incur DNS lookups and save much network
time and DNS traffic.

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