[SURBL-Discuss] free host: greatnow.com
Jeff Chan
jeffc at surbl.org
Tue Oct 26 08:14:04 CEST 2004
On Monday, October 25, 2004, 8:56:35 PM, Matthew Hunter wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 25, 2004 at 04:24:10PM -0700, Jeff Chan <jeffc at surbl.org> wrote:
>> On Monday, October 25, 2004, 4:10:16 PM, Jeff Chan wrote:
>> > it's good to test on more
>> > system and more than one set of mail to better find potential
>> > problems.
>> more than one systems....
>> Anyway did we find any other public blog spam data besides
>> jayallen?
>> IIRC Matthew Hunter was staring to collect some blog spam data.
>> Matthew, how is that going?
> Fairly well by my primary measure, which is stopping spam
> comments and trackbacks on my blog. I've learned that the number
> of domains actually being used for this sort of thing is very
> small compared to email spam. I've added the 24 domains of my
> own to the MT-blacklist list from 2004/08/29 and that has sufficed
> to block everyone who is trying to spam my blog. 0 false
> positives on blog spam attempts, but I'm not using the same list
> to block on email.
> Almost all of the attempts have been against the domains I had to
> add myself, not those already on the list. This suggests to
> me that there is a small number of blog spammers behind most of
> it. They buy a few domains, do a run, and when they start to
> get blocked buy a few more domains. It's very much a stop and
> start thing.
Thanks for the update and sharing some interesting results.
> If anyone can point me to a tool to run a URIBL against a spam
> corpus, I'll report back results against my own personal spam
> collection. Or I could just post the updated list somewhere.
I assume most of the SpamAssassin folks use the built in
mass check facility to do that, and there is a stats script
to handle from the results of that, the reference for which
I don't have handy.
Jeff C.
--
"If it appears in hams, then don't list it."
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