There are certainly ways to code around this and it *might* be a very valid way to stop spammers. I'll leave that debate to continue.
However, my point was just to make sure that some admins didn't go code up a whois lookup that was automated and find themselves in violation of the whois rules against automation. Most of the whois servers will notice automated lookups of X number in Y period of time and just eventually block your access. Then you'll get every domain as unknown and start blocking all mail ;-) Regards, KAM > Well, you could do an enhanced form of greylisting. If mail comes > from an unknown domain, you greylist for 24 hours. Otherwise, you use > the normal greylisting timing. After 24 hours, the SURBLs should have > caught up. This doesn't involve WHOIS lookups and is independent of > when the domains were registered. > > The obvious downside is a very long (probably unacceptably long) initial > delay for mail from a new domain. :-( _______________________________________________ Visit http://www.mimedefang.org and http://www.canit.ca MIMEDefang mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.roaringpenguin.com/mailman/listinfo/mimedefang
