>> a BIG blacklist is overhyped > > Nonsense, porn blacklists are big by nature have you tried > squid-porn.acl lately? > > Squidblacklist.org is the new kid on the blacklist block, and our porn > blacklist is fantastic. If you actually read what I said, which was "there was only a small percentage of those websites we actually wanted to block, the rest were either squatting websites or non-existent, or not relevant." The key word is relevance, I don't care how big it is if the vast of majority of sites in there don't exist (or no longer exists), or don't consume enough bandwidth to waste our time on, or our users don't even visit. Or we end up blocking sites we don't want to block. Or sites that we wanted to block that were not in the list. Size alone is not useful if what's in there is mostly not relevant. If you are blocking a lot of sites which doesn't need to be blocked you are actually wasting server resources. I don't know about other people, but I prefer quality over quantity.
