Chris Santerre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I think this is just plain nuts to whitelist all of these! Why? If we
> don't try to whitelist the most popular sites, then what the heck it
> the point? We could whitelist millions of legit domains forever. The
> popular ones are the most important.
The points:
- whitelisting legitimate domains limits the effectiveness of joe job
attacks that result in FPs in various SURBL blacklists
- whitelisting could be used as negative points for MAIL FROM if
combined with SPF (and more domains is better)
In addition:
- I would only whitelist those domains (a) subject to editorial
removal (b) so long as their domain registration is old enough and
(c) so long as they pass other criteria such as no SBL listing for
NS->A.
- I would maintain the automated whitelist separately from the human
edited whitelist and handle it differently. For example, perhaps
automated whitelist entries can only remove a single blacklist hit
(like SpamCop), but to remove two independent blacklist hits, it
requires a human decision.
> so:
> -1 for adding all those intersected to WL
> +1 for whitelisting the blacklist hits.
I think there are other options available due to the miracle of
programming. ;-)
Daniel
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