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RE: [Asrg] 7. Best Practices - DNSBLs - Article

2003-08-13 08:58:41
At 11:07 AM -0400 2003/08/13, Paul Judge wrote:

 3) Create tools that sufficiently anonymize the ham so that people are
 comfortable submitting it. There is similar work being done in other areas
 of networking. One of the difficulties here is anonymizing the data while
 preserving the relevant relationships within the data.

In terms of analyzing black list performance, all we need is the IP address(es) found in the headers of the message. Everything else is superfluous, and indeed gets in our way.

That should be sufficiently anonymous that there shouldn't be any problem with people being willing to share that information. Or, so I would think.

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