On Friday, January 14, 2005, 1:00:04 AM, Raymond Dijkxhoorn wrote:
>> One idea I had to fix this is that SA not use the SURBL whitelist for 1
>> in 10 queries and that those be directed to a different zone.  However,
>> that would be somewhat counterproductive in terms of DNS caching and I'm
>> not sure how happy Jeff would be about the idea.

> Please dont, this wont scale at all, people running their own copy's of 
> the RBL's wont be happy with this.

>> Another way would be to not use the exclusion list for certain periods
>> of time if you could select just those times for generating volume
>> data.  A bit too hacky.
>>
>> Another way to fix the problem would be to rank the domains with some
>> other source of volume data (not SURBL-related) such as looking at a DNS
>> cache at a large ISP.

> We allready do these things, we monitor traffic on some of the SURBL 
> servers and have pretty ok stats available of what the 'top domains' are.

Hi Raymond,
Not everyone may have been included in an earlier discussion.
Since SpamAssassin is whitelisting a top 125 of domains and
not checking them, those 125 tend to be underrepresented in
the DNS queries.  Daniel was interested in finding a more
representative sample of the whitehat domains to feed back
into the process to revise the 125.

Jeff C.
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Jeff Chan
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http://www.surbl.org/

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