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. -- Jeff Chan mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.surbl.org/
