> http://spamcheck.freeapp.net/top-sites.html
>
Taking a quick look at this list just now, I come to the conclusion that it
shouldn't be gratuitously trusted below the 10th percentile.
Down at that level I find
co.uk (almost everything in the UK)
ebay.com (privacy policies mailings, signed up for)
yahoo.com (mostly groups.yahoo.com/local/spamguard.html)
geocities.com is also in there, but it is not clear to me if these are false
in all cases, or might be spamvertized sites in possibly more than a few
cases.
>From about the 11th percentile upward the sites look to be pure spam, and
most of them medz sites. It would be mildly interesting to know how many of
these track back to a single spammer somewhere!
I suggest the plugin should be able to determine not only the site name
being on the list, but whether this state is trustworthy; ie, it is not in
the bottom 10% of the current listings. Of course that could be filtered on
the server, and simply not hand out an acknoledgement for low-ranking sites.
Loren
