> Tony Finch wrote:
>>Yes, this is why you have to be careful about the nameservers that are
>>blacklisted. They must be controlled by spammers rather than merely used
>>by spammers, which is why the SBL is an appropriate blacklist for this
>>purpose.

On Monday, March 29, 2004, 10:41:39 AM, Marc Perkel wrote:
> I agree - but if you were using your own Bayes to do the scoring then - 
> hopefully - nameservers that were split spam/nonspam wouldn't affect the 
> score where the ones that were all spam would

But doesn't that assume (perhaps prejudicially) that an SA can
see *every* domain that a name server serves?  What if there were
a name server whose domains only appeared in spams as far as a
particular SA could see, but which in fact served up many more
legitimate domains that *seldom appeared in spam*?  Those legitimate
domains would be blocked by this approach of blacklisting name
servers.  I find that potentially somewhat unfair.

Jeff C.
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