[SURBL-Discuss] RE: Start an IP list to block?

Chris Santerre csanterre at merchantsoverseas.com
Fri Sep 10 20:05:16 CEST 2004



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>From: jm at jmason.org [mailto:jm at jmason.org]
>Sent: Friday, September 10, 2004 1:05 PM
>To: Jeff Chan
>Cc: SURBL Discussion list (E-mail); Spamassassin-Talk (E-mail)
>Subject: Re: Start an IP list to block? 
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>Jeff Chan writes:
>> On Friday, September 10, 2004, 7:27:06 AM, Chris Santerre wrote:
>> > WOW! I think this would hit more FPs then listing the IP! 
>Am I wrong there!
>> > I would never list the name server, as they may be hosting 
>for much more
>> > then just a spammer. That number is sure to be greater 
>then a virtual hosts
>> > number for an IP. Maybe I'm missing something key?
>> 
>> SBL lists some spammer name server (and web server) IPs.
>> Hopefully they're careful about it, since you're right listing
>> name servers could affect a lot more than just the virtual hosts
>> on a web server IP.
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>SBL is also *very* manually-driven, and has a high level of certainty
>required before anything is listed.  There's some serious human vetting
>going on for every IP that gets added, and they (generally) 
>spot the cases
>where ns1.bigisp.com would be listed, and don't list them ;)
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>- --j.

1) Sounds familiar...the vetting that is ;)
2) HOw the hell do you keep up on your email? I'm convinced JM is actually a
machine of some sort. Possibly an old PDP11 in a university basement someone
left on and forgot. It somehow became self aware. 

--Chris


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