Robert Menschel said:
> Don't drop the 125, but simply add to the
> whitelist a number of the "new" top 100

I like that idea as a second choice. If the list is only updated when
there is a new release of SpamAssassin then it will not grow too rapidly.
It would be quite a few years to get to a table of a thousand entries.

There would be a minor problem with a whitelisted domain expiring and
getting snapped up by a spammer. That could be taken care of by the SURBL
people checking if a domain that is being added to the SURBL is on the
whitelist and informing the SA team so it can be removed.

But it is only my second choice, if there is no way for SURBL to monitor
domains in email independent of the SA queries. I like the idea of them
getting feeds from ISPs like the one sonic.net offered. That way they can
maintain a current list of most common domains in ham mail independent of
the SpamAssassin release cycle. SpamAssassin could download the list more
or less often depending on how volatile the list is. My guess is that
monthly is fine, as that is much better than once per SA release cycle.

 Sidney Markowitz
 http://www.sidney.com


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