On 08/21/02 at 12:02, Neil Herber wrote: > Doug > > See my answers (which may be correct!) below. Smarter folks will > correct me ... > > It is rumored that on or about 2002-08-21 10:47 AM -0500, NetHead > wrote as follows: > >Well, I've searched the archives, but haven't found the answer to these > >two questions. > > > >First, is it valid, in my blacklist entries, to use comments? I know in > >the router I can use semi-colon to indicate a comment. Does the same > >technique work in the blacklist? What I'd like to do is something like > >this: > > > > 207.236.148.104-207.236.148.111; Really Bad Spamming, Inc. > > 216.27.95.97; spamdomain.net's mail server spew.spam.com > >Is that valid? > > Yes this does work, but it consumes some of the space available in > the blacklist. I am not sure of the size, but the web interface can't > seem to handle really long lists - so leaving comments out gives you > more room for IPs.
It's not just the web interface that has a problem with big blacklists. I recently ran into the problem of not being able to update my blacklist with copious comments from either the web interface or Communigator -- SIMS gave me a 'not enough memory' error. I suspect that SIMS has a 32K limit, or some such, on the blacklist. I keep a commented version of my blacklist in a text file anyway, so I now strip the comments with BBEdit before copying and pasting into Communigator/SIMS Web admin. > I actually save all the spam that makes me blacklist IPs into text > files named with the IP number. I have them web-accessible so that > spammers can see why they were hit. http://spam.eton.ca/ (look for > the link on that page). Nice. -- Christopher Bort | [EMAIL PROTECTED] Webmaster, Global Homes | [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://www.globalhomes.com/> ############################################################# This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To switch to the INDEX mode, E-mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Send administrative queries to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
