On Friday, January 14, 2005, 6:39:07 AM, Raymond Dijkxhoorn wrote:
>> 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?

> IT was mainly to reduce hits on the nameservers. On all SURBLs the 
> whitelist is used allreayd so for lookups it would be a waste to do a 
> extra lookup. Doesnt bring much extra, or would you like to add a negative 
> score for whitelisted domains? Then it would make sense. But on the other 
> hand then spammers will add random links with whitelisted domains, since 
> the whitelist is publicly available.

Yes, that's a reason why we didn't do it.  :-)

Jeff C.
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