http://bugzilla.spamassassin.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3827
------- Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2004-09-30 10:30 ------- '2. however, if "sh.cn" is a small company that offers for-free or for-pay subdelegation to third parties, and a spammer registers "foo.sh.cn", but there are nonspam domains at "bar.sh.cn", "baz.sh.cn", we cannot list them (because we'd have to list "sh.cn" and hit all the nonspam domains too).' k, thanks for the explanation. But my point still stands: There are n provider which offer third-level domains, with lim(n)->oo. We simply can't list all those providers in one big RE (or even a hash) because (a) they are too many and (b) they may change under our feet. When I grep through my spam I could maybe tell you 10 such provider which are actually abused and aren't listed there (one from my head which is very much abused: 0catch.com) and think of a list of ones which aren't yet (like gmxhome.de and internet-provider.net). So as long as those currently listed are abused very much I don't see a point in including them. '(what is an "official" one anyway? do ICANN maintain a list of all the sub-ccTLD delegators, like whoever deals with registration for .co.uk, .ac.uk, et al?)' I don't think ICANN maintains such a list; some NICs even changed their mind at some time and started to offer direct second-level domains, too. But at least for the "official" ones the possibility that such a domain is abused is higher than with some random provider. ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the assignee for the bug, or are watching the assignee.
