https://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=5864
Sidney Markowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> changed:
What |Removed |Added
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Status|REOPENED |RESOLVED
Resolution| |WONTFIX
--- Comment #16 from Sidney Markowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2008-05-12 15:24:09
PST ---
(reply to comments #13 and #15)
Benny, comment #7 explains why we have the skipped list, that it prevents high
volumes of unnecessary queries to RBLs when we know the results of the query
will be "not on block list". Comment #8 answers your question about how
something gets on to the skip list and why it can't be built from a local list
of domains taht have not been seen in spam. Comment #11 explains why disabling
the skip list would be a really bad idea and also explains that it would not
provide the benefit that you seem to think it would regarding geocities, in
spite of anything that anyone has complained about on the users list.
Comment #9 gives you a workaround that is easy, practical, will produce the
result that you want, and has some extra advantages that are mentioned in the
comment.
> is it a list of high trafic domains that have low spam levels ?
No, as has been explained in other comments, it is a list of domains that
appear often in email that we know are not going to appear on the blacklist.
That doesn't mean that they produce no spam. It does mean that there would be
too many false positives to blacklist them as spammers. Do you see the
difference? You can't block email only because you know that there is a 50%
chance that it is spam, even if it is a 50% chance that it is really nasty high
volume spam.
> why not let eg uribl.com white be mapped to skipdomains ?
As has been explained, the skip list is used to prevent unnecessary traffic to
the RBLs. You don't get that by querying the RBL for the entire white list. As
has also been explained, the skip list is small enough that it is practical to
have it be a list in the rules. It should contain just the domains that appear
in enough traffic to make it worthwhile to include them in the skip list.
> as i see it now, none can get skipped domains changed
Once again, Comment #9 gives you a workaround that is easy, practical, will
produce the result that you want, and has some extra advantages that are
mentioned in the comment.
I'm closing this again. Please do not reopen this unless you can demonstrate
some specific numbers to contradict Matt's assertions in comment #11 that this
change would have negative impact on accuracy and performance while having no
impact on security and stability.
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