Re: R: R: URIWhois-0.02

2007-09-27 Thread Jeff Chan
Quoting Giampaolo Tomassoni [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I think there is a lot of people in this list who runs a small business like mine, and who may benefit from using the URIWhois plugin with no negative consequences. The others, well, they have influence and resources to spend in a centralized

AW: URIWhois-0.02

2007-09-27 Thread Starckjohann, Ove
-09-26 00:58 TLD.pm Where is my fault ? Ove Starckjohann -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Giampaolo Tomassoni [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: Mittwoch, 26. September 2007 15:15 An: users@spamassassin.apache.org Betreff: R: URIWhois-0.02 Oh, my! I forgot the link

R: URIWhois-0.02

2007-09-27 Thread Giampaolo Tomassoni
-Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Giampaolo Tomassoni [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: Mittwoch, 26. September 2007 15:15 An: users@spamassassin.apache.org Betreff: R: URIWhois-0.02 Oh, my! I forgot the link to URIWhois-0.02. Here it goes: http://www.tomassoni.biz

Re: R: R: URIWhois-0.02

2007-09-27 Thread Kris Deugau
Giampaolo Tomassoni wrote: -Messaggio originale- Da: Daryl C. W. O'Shea [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] It appears that you selectively missed the part that applies: You agree that you will use this data only for lawful purposes and that, under no circumstances will you use this data to: (a)

R: R: R: URIWhois-0.02

2007-09-27 Thread Giampaolo Tomassoni
-Messaggio originale- Da: Kris Deugau [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Inviato: giovedì 27 settembre 2007 18.14 Giampaolo Tomassoni wrote: -Messaggio originale- Da: Daryl C. W. O'Shea [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] It appears that you selectively missed the part that applies:

R: URIWhois-0.02

2007-09-27 Thread Giampaolo Tomassoni
-Messaggio originale- Da: Bret Miller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Inviato: giovedì 27 settembre 2007 17.16 Perhaps rather than arguing about whether we'd all get blocked by running this, it would be more productive to lobby a registrar to provide the data in rsynch-able form to

Re: R: R: R: URIWhois-0.02

2007-09-27 Thread Daryl C. W. O'Shea
Giampaolo Tomassoni wrote: Well, I have to manually turn my MX server on and off, sometimes. So, is it SA an automated process? And then, if SA issues a whois request, is it automated? This is plain silliness, which leads me to believe that you very well know that you're doing automated

R: R: R: R: URIWhois-0.02

2007-09-27 Thread Giampaolo Tomassoni
-Messaggio originale- Da: Daryl C. W. O'Shea [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Inviato: giovedì 27 settembre 2007 19.22 Giampaolo Tomassoni wrote: Well, I have to manually turn my MX server on and off, sometimes. So, is it SA an automated process? And then, if SA issues a whois

RE: URIWhois-0.02

2007-09-27 Thread Jeff Chan
Quoting Bret Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Perhaps rather than arguing about whether we'd all get blocked by running this, it would be more productive to lobby a registrar to provide the data in rsynch-able form to URIBL or SURBL where DNS infrastructure could be used to make the data available

URIWhois-0.02

2007-09-26 Thread Giampaolo Tomassoni
Dears, I got some feedback from people failing to successfully run the URIWhois plugin. It seems to me these are installation issues, so I just prepared version 0.02 of this plugin, which basically borrows an INSTALL.txt file in which I attempt to explain how to correctly install the plugin.

R: URIWhois-0.02

2007-09-26 Thread Giampaolo Tomassoni
Oh, my! I forgot the link to URIWhois-0.02. Here it goes: http://www.tomassoni.biz/download/URIWhois-0.02.tar.bz2 Sorry for bothering you again. Giampaolo -Messaggio originale- Da: Giampaolo Tomassoni [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Inviato: mercoledì 26 settembre 2007 15.11

Re: URIWhois-0.02

2007-09-26 Thread Jeff Chan
Quoting Giampaolo Tomassoni [EMAIL PROTECTED]: the issue covered by the URIWhois plugin would be much more efficiently solved by a centralized solution, in which someone gathers registration data from registars (maybe even not through whois, but through direct db access) and then publics this

RE: URIWhois-0.02

2007-09-26 Thread Robert - elists
DOB, for example, is run by ar.com, who are a registrar. Since they are a domain registrar, they have full, direct access to the whois database. Jeff C. Well there ya go Jeff... Become a registrar and bam! More data to help you cause - rh

Re: URIWhois-0.02

2007-09-26 Thread Dallas Engelken
Robert - elists wrote: DOB, for example, is run by ar.com, who are a registrar. Since they are a domain registrar, they have full, direct access to the whois database. Jeff C. Well there ya go Jeff... Become a registrar and bam! More data to help you cause Thats the easy answer,

RE: URIWhois-0.02

2007-09-26 Thread Robert - elists
Thats the easy answer, but do you know what it costs to become a registrar? Just for com/net from verisign you have $6500 up front, and $4k recurring. To get your icann credentials, you have $2500 up front with application, $4k yearly. A variable fee to icann once you start

Re: URIWhois-0.02

2007-09-26 Thread Justin Mason
Robert - elists writes: DOB, for example, is run by ar.com, who are a registrar. Since they are a domain registrar, they have full, direct access to the whois database. Jeff C. Well there ya go Jeff... Become a registrar and bam! More data to help you cause why do you

R: URIWhois-0.02

2007-09-26 Thread Giampaolo Tomassoni
-Messaggio originale- Da: Robert - elists [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] DOB, for example, is run by ar.com, who are a registrar. Since they are a domain registrar, they have full, direct access to the whois database. Jeff C. Well there ya go Jeff... Become a

RE: URIWhois-0.02

2007-09-26 Thread SM
At 08:56 26-09-2007, Robert - elists wrote: Become a registrar and bam! More data to help you cause Access to Whois data is not limited to registrars only. I suggest reading the Whois terms of service before enabling this plugin. Regards, -sm

R: URIWhois-0.02

2007-09-26 Thread Giampaolo Tomassoni
-Messaggio originale- Da: SM [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] At 08:56 26-09-2007, Robert - elists wrote: Become a registrar and bam! More data to help you cause Access to Whois data is not limited to registrars only. I suggest reading the Whois terms of service before enabling this

Re: R: URIWhois-0.02

2007-09-26 Thread Daryl C. W. O'Shea
Giampaolo Tomassoni wrote: -Messaggio originale- Da: SM [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] At 08:56 26-09-2007, Robert - elists wrote: Become a registrar and bam! More data to help you cause Access to Whois data is not limited to registrars only. I suggest reading the Whois terms of service

R: R: URIWhois-0.02

2007-09-26 Thread Giampaolo Tomassoni
-Messaggio originale- Da: Daryl C. W. O'Shea [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] However, mostly they say that: Whois database is provided by XX for information purposes only, and to assist persons in obtaining information about or related to a domain name registration

Re: R: URIWhois-0.02

2007-09-26 Thread John D. Hardin
On Wed, 26 Sep 2007, Giampaolo Tomassoni wrote: So, I don't see the problem here: we are attempting to obtain information about or related to a domain name registration record. Doing it over and over and over from an automated tool can be considered abusive when the service was intended to

Re: R: URIWhois-0.02

2007-09-26 Thread SM
At 13:48 26-09-2007, Giampaolo Tomassoni wrote: These terms depend upon the registrar offering the service. However, mostly they say that: Whois database is provided by XX for information purposes only, and to assist persons in obtaining information about or related to a

R: R: URIWhois-0.02

2007-09-26 Thread Giampaolo Tomassoni
-Messaggio originale- Da: John D. Hardin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wed, 26 Sep 2007, Giampaolo Tomassoni wrote: So, I don't see the problem here: we are attempting to obtain information about or related to a domain name registration record. Doing it over and over and over

Re: R: R: URIWhois-0.02

2007-09-26 Thread Michele Neylon :: Blacknight
Giampaolo Tomassoni wrote: This means nothing: what is a high volume? Also, you normally use the whois command. Isn't it an automated, electronic process? They are to say: If we like to ban you, don't scream!. These terms comes from early internet ages, when spammers were used to scavenge

R: R: R: URIWhois-0.02

2007-09-26 Thread Giampaolo Tomassoni
-Messaggio originale- Da: Michele Neylon :: Blacknight [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] That refers to pretty much all TLDs and ccTLDs If you want to go slamming registry and registrar whois servers in an automated fashion you will get blacklisted by them all and blocked I don't want

Re: R: R: R: URIWhois-0.02

2007-09-26 Thread Michele Neylon :: Blacknight
Giampaolo Tomassoni wrote: -Messaggio originale- Da: Michele Neylon :: Blacknight [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] That refers to pretty much all TLDs and ccTLDs If you want to go slamming registry and registrar whois servers in an automated fashion you will get blacklisted by them all and

Re: R: R: URIWhois-0.02

2007-09-26 Thread Dave Koontz
If nothing else, you should likely add a disclaimer to your rules as you can't control the threshold at which a site may be blocked for excessive queries. I doubt that most users on this list have email volumes as low as yours (100?), and will go well above the thresholds you've tested. I am a

R: R: R: R: URIWhois-0.02

2007-09-26 Thread Giampaolo Tomassoni
-Messaggio originale- Da: Michele Neylon :: Blacknight [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Inviato: giovedì 27 settembre 2007 0.55 Giampaolo Tomassoni wrote: -Messaggio originale- Da: Michele Neylon :: Blacknight [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] That refers to pretty much all TLDs and

R: R: R: URIWhois-0.02

2007-09-26 Thread Giampaolo Tomassoni
-Messaggio originale- Da: Dave Koontz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Inviato: giovedì 27 settembre 2007 0.50 If nothing else, you should likely add a disclaimer to your rules as you can't control the threshold at which a site may be blocked for excessive queries. I doubt that most

Re: R: R: R: URIWhois-0.02

2007-09-26 Thread Dave Koontz
Thanks for the explanation, but I think you are missing the point here. What is reasonable and what will cause a block? An individual may well issue 100 queries a day for research. Not many have the time to do tens of thousands+ a day (or more). Any system that does will likely fall into the