[SURBL-Discuss] important reduce wrise renkles & skin spots ( fwd)

Jeff Chan jeffc at surbl.org
Wed Sep 15 12:18:39 CEST 2004


On Wednesday, September 15, 2004, 1:13:57 AM, Joe Wein wrote:
> Alex Broens wrote:
>> > What is your expiration algorithm?
>>
>> None so far. As its all very new, I'm still "collecting".
>> On my local IP RBL I have 30 days, dunno yet what to use on URIs, I
>> assume that using 6 months at least would be  safe.
>>
>> Suggestions?

> In my spamfilter I keep a "referenced" list of domains: Every time I have a
> positive lookup and the domain is not in the referenced list, I add it.

> Then every couple of weeks I rename the referenced list file and start from
> scratch. By intersecting these limited timeframe usage lists with the larger
> blacklist I can later verify which domains were actively spamvertised during
> what period.

> So I could do someting like remove all entries added to the local blacklist
> list between January and April that were not advertised between May and
> August, for example.

> If we had activity data for how many times the DNS server returned a hit for
> which domains on a given day, we could also work out such heuristics.

There is a rough count of SURBL DNS hits at:

  http://www.surbl.org/dns-queries.counts.txt

It's only a sampling of about 32k queries over two days, so
the source data is a little sparse, yet it can give some idea
of some of the queries being hit.

Jeff C.



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