> > >> We do have a whitelist that our private research tools do >poll. The > >> idea is that if it isn't in SURBL then it is white. > >> > >> This also puts more work to the already overworked contributors. ;) > > >How so? The lookup code is already compatible as is, it's >just a matter >of adding the records to each of the SURBL zones... from the already >existing data files. That'd take some effort, but I can't imagine it >would require anything more than trivial changes... although I've been >wrong before.
Assuming that this whitelist would be used to LOWER the score of an email, and not just exclude them from SURBL. Then we would go thru even moreresearch before we whitelist a domain. There is a LOT of work that goes into adding a domain to our whitelist, and that is JUST for exclusion! It takes at least twice as long to see if someone is white vs black. Thats where the "more work" would come from. You should see some of the long threads on a single domain up for being whitelisted. Its a good thing Jeff and I have a sense of humor with eachother ;) My whole idea was skipping the lookup entirley. Why would you want to do a lookup for google even if it is cached? --Chris
