On 12/14/2010 8:06 PM, Bart Schaefer wrote:
http://blog.wordtothewise.com/2010/12/gfi-sorbs-considered-harmful-part-5/
I've seen the headaches of getting off SORBS, but how did you really end up there?
While I agree that SORBS is not reliable enough for use at the MTA level, I've not seen one complaint from my customers over using SORBS in SA. Isn't the beauty of SA the fact that you can score gray areas and not be stuck with black or white?
In case it's a mystery, SA scores are automatically generated based on results from the corpus. If those results weren't productive, the rules would either be disabled or their scores adjusted even lower. However, if the corpus isn't representative, the generated scores are in error, and that means we need more trusted submitters. Or maybe your traffic is relatively unique and you should already be generating your own scores?
Ultimately, this seems to be more of a witch hunt against SORBS than a SA issue. Although I'm not opposed to a SORBS witch hunt, I don't think it belongs here.
/$.02 -- /Jason
