[SURBL-Discuss] free host: greatnow.com

Chris Santerre csanterre at merchantsoverseas.com
Fri Oct 22 22:10:12 CEST 2004



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>From: jm at jmason.org [mailto:jm at jmason.org]
>Sent: Friday, October 22, 2004 3:49 PM
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>Cc: csanterre at merchantsoverseas.com
>Subject: Re: [SURBL-Discuss] free host: greatnow.com 
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>Matthew Wilson writes:
>> Folks,
>> 
>> If I were a spammer monitoring this list's traffic (there 
>have got to be
>> some), I would buy up a bunch of domains that were registered a few
>> years ago but expired, throw up a bunch of bogus "legitimate looking"
>> content,
>
>yep, the google-spammers are doing that already.
>
>> send out a bunch of spam using those "legitimate" domain names,
>> and then complain to Jeff et al. that SURBL is generating false
>> positives.  According to current policies, my sites would be
>> whitelisted, "yay!".  
>
>this is a possible problem, alright.  But as far as I can see Jeff
>has been saying to *check* the possible false positive domains, not
>to just blindly whitelist them.

And we do check them. Find that they have in the past, and currently host a
BUNCH of spam. But they get one legit use. So they get whitelisted on WS,
according to the policy. So I follow the policy of WS. 

Only choice is to submit this stuff to a list with a different policy.

--Chris 


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