On Mittwoch, 16. Dezember 2009 Marc Perkel wrote: > I found a bug in the way my Hostkarna blacklist generates the list > which led to some false positives. There are servers that look like > spammers sometimes but lomg term data and white listing and nobl > listing was supposed to keep these servers off our black list. > However what was happening is that due to bad processing some of > these servers would appear on the list for a few hours just to be > automatically removed later. I would get complaints of people listed > but by the time they complained the system had already removed them. > > Even though the number of false positives was small, even a small > number is enough to get noticed because in my world a false positive > is as bad as 100 unblocked spams. > > So - for those of you testing my lists you might want to consider > doing another test run. It should come out better than the last time > in relation to false positives.
Thank you Marc, good to hear. I guess I'll retry next year, now everybody stops working and I wouldn't get reports until Jan 11. -- mit freundlichen Grüssen, Michael Monnerie, Ing. BSc it-management Internet Services http://it-management.at Tel: 0660 / 415 65 31 // Wir haben zwei Häuser zu verkaufen: // http://zmi.at/langegg/ // http://willhaben.at/iad/realestate/object?adId=15306857
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