[Mimedefang] SURBL question

Lucas Albers admin at cs.montana.edu
Thu Jul 1 15:18:19 EDT 2004


Jim McCullars said:
> Is there a consensus as to which of the SURBL lists should be used for
> blocking?  I have started refusing (not just adding a score to) email that
> shows up on sc.surbl.org, but occasionally spam will get through that
> would have been caught by one of the other lists.  I am thinking of going
> to multi.surbl.org, but does anyone have a feel for whether this might
> generate too high a false positive rate?  TIA...
>
Yes.
The estimed FP for multi based on GA runs is exponentially higher then just
the base surbl list, based on the surbl admin.
Perhaps add score based on multi, but don't block.

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Luke Computer Science System Administrator
Security Administrator,College of Engineering
Montana State University-Bozeman,Montana



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