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Chris Santerre writes: > >-----Original Message----- > >From: Fred [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Sent: Friday, July 09, 2004 1:33 PM > >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Subject: Re: ob.surbl.org FP > > > > > >Brian Godette wrote: > >> Is someone's politics showing? > >> > >> 2.5 OB_URI_RBL URI's domain appears in ob.surbl.org > >> [www.KerryPicksEdwards.com is blacklisted in URI] > >> [RBL at ob.surbl.org] > > > > > >>>From the surbl.org website: > >ob.surbl.org - OutBlaze spamvertised sites > >OutBlaze is kindly providing a list of spamvertised sites which are now > >going into ob.surbl.org. The list appears to be quite good, > >detecting about > >70% of spams while triggering about 0.1% false positives. The > >list has about > >20,000 entries. > > > > > >I would contact OutBlaze and find out why they have it listed. > > There was some discussion on this on the spam-l list. It is a question of > policy and opinion. They did send out Unsolicited Bulk email. But CANSPAM > makes it 'ok' to do this for politics. > The discussion seemd to point to the idea that antispam people don't agree > that it is 'ok' to do this. And some people have been blocking it. Not again! :( As http://www.spamvertized.org points out, this is a recurrent problem. BTW it doesn't matter what CAN-SPAM says, if recipients elsewhere in the world are getting it. Sending spam to countries where such mail is illegal, is obviously something a presidential campaign should be ashamed of. Also, the CAN-SPAM prohibition against blocking political messages is absurd when you consider the Sober.H worm traffic! > IMHO I think all political unsolicited bulk email should be blocked. But I > have a larger responsibility to more users of SURBL. So I didn't add it to > [WS]. true. SURBL's a case where blocking the URL itself will have FPs, since that's something that people will be sending around in nonspam mail. - --j. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Exmh CVS iD8DBQFA7uYFQTcbUG5Y7woRAg2eAJ9sBqYH/OD1O+seiDjq4DItuBlMpwCdH+DU UjtGxzV69DLDb82gYN2cgT4= =WdZF -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
