Re: [Razor-users] False positives on posts to small Mailman mailing list

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Hi, Evan:

Weirdly enough, your last message and the one titled [Forgot to attach
files] have been categorized as spam on GMail... just as a side note.

Greets
Luis Alberto


On Thu, 03 Feb 2005 21:56:40 -0500, Evan Prodromou <ev...@ba...> wrote=
:
>  On Thu, 2005-03-02 at 17:53 -0500, Matt Kettler wrote:=20
>  It looks like razor has any URLs pointing to bad.dynu.ca listed as
> spamvertized URLs. And the mailman list is adding that URL in the footer.
> Weird. Well, I'm pretty sure I'm the only person on this list who uses
> Razor, so I'm going to guess I must have accidentally razor-report'd a
> message.=20
>  You can tell it's one of the two URLs in the message because the signatu=
re
> matching is e8. e8 is whiplash, which is a hash of a URL, and mostly focu=
ses
> on the domain of the link. I'm sure someone smarter than me has a good
> reason that that's a good idea. I have a hard time believing that big ema=
il
> providers like Yahoo! and Topica aren't going to be blacklisted real soon=
...
>  Since it's the first e8, I assume it's the first URL in the body. Which
> would be the one to bad.dynu.ca. Yeah, a dummy message with just the
> bad.dynu.ca URL tests as "known spam". Actually... ah, anything with
> .dynu.ca tests negative. .dynu.ca is a dynamic hostname service:
> =20
> http://dmoz.org/Computers/Software/Internet/Servers/Address_Management/Dy=
namic_DNS_Services/
> =20
> =20
>  Issue some razor-revokes and it should clear up. It didn't. Grrr. I took
> the footer URL=20
>  This is not a good trend for razor. Not good at all. The addition of e8 =
has
> boosted razor's hit rate substantially, but it's causing some really odd =
FPs
> too. No, it's not a good trend. I'm strongly reminded of overzealous RBLe=
rs
> who blacklist big blocks of IPs to hide one or two bad apples.
> =20
>  ~Evan
> =20
> =20
>  -- Evan Prodromou                  .O. http://bad.dynu.ca/~evan/       .=
.O
> ev...@ba...                OOO=20


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Luis Alberto Pab=F3n Flores
copong.NOSP@M.gmail.com