On 5/17/2009 3:22 PM, Michael Monnerie wrote:
On Sonntag 17 Mai 2009 Yet Another Ninja wrote:
The future of this project depends if the concept is of any use. The
lack of feedback, any kind, must mean its of little value so it might
as well be drowned at birth.
I generally like the idea. But this project is in the beginners phase,
and a whole lot of people will want to wait until others report it's
benefits. After all, who wishes to put it in production and then maybe
it causes a lot of FPs?
Then YOU have caused the FPs by raising the score. Bobody told you tgo
score it above 0.5 and if you fear, YOU can lower the score.
ATM, you use a very conservative e-mail block list feed, meaning no FPs
should occur. But as there is currently no exact description of where e-
mail reports will come from, nobody knows how good the list will be
then.
its not the point, let the ppl running this do their job. You don't
question every IP or URI listed by a BL either, do you? You use them,
score low and if it works, go higher.
That said, I'll implement and test it, and hopefully it's good, with no
FPs.
How can score of 0.001 cause a false positive?
I immeditately see that GMX is currently not listed in EMAILBL. It's a
big player in the DACH region (Germany, Austria, Switzerland). They have
a hard anti spam setup (e.g. not accepting mails from hosts without
reverse IP DNS entries, aka PTR Records), so maybe it's not worth to
list them?
not the point - afaik its not be a freemailer list.
All the ppl running this experiment want you and as many as possible to
do is impelement the plugin, count hits, give feedback. Its not supposed
to stop your spam problem.
Not much to ask for.
No feedback = no motivation for anybody to publish the data > your loss.
Considering most will use any old obsoleted ruleset without asking
questions (SARE) just coz others say its kewl, any generic fear of FPs
is totally unfounded as its all under the end user's control.
As with any published BL data, nobody is asking you to reject, discard
or closely trust the data published in the respective list.
