On Friday, January 14, 2005, 5:34:06 AM, Tony Finch wrote:
> On Thu, 13 Jan 2005, Daniel Quinlan wrote:

>> So, as you may be aware, we have a minor issue in terms of figuring out
>> which whitelisted domains should be skipped in queries.
>>
>>   SpamAssassin now ships with list of domains that are excluded for
>>   SURBL lookups from the SURBL whitelist.  This list is the 125
>>   most commonly queried domains.

> Why not make the SURBL whitelist into a DNSBL? I'm assuming that the
> whitelist has something to do with correctness of results. Or is it just
> to reduce the number of queries?

> Tony.

We prevent about half of all DNS queries by whitelisting the top
125 and not checking those on the client side (in SA).

Jeff C.
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