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John Andersen writes: > On Thursday 18 March 2004 08:46, Nels Lindquist wrote: > > > Since Habeas receives lots of reports of infringing mail, you could > > > pull out URLs used by the infringers and generate a more > > > comprehensive ruleset along the lines of what I've outlined above. > > > > > > By updating such a ruleset as new URLs are discovered and making it > > > available for download, SA users can be better protected from > > > infringing spam while still retaining the benefit of properly scoring > > > legitimate Habeas SWE users. > > This seems to be on a potentially promissing track. > > But I submit that these offending URLs would be more effectivly > tracked with DNS like approach which, I believe, could be handled > by something like Razor. > > In fact I recall Vipul mentioning this sort of use on the Razor list. > It would/could/should be a separate database than the existing > razor database, but the result would be the same. > > Submit a url to an engine, engine extracts interesting parts, > hashes same, submits hash to a razor like engine, and gets > a simple binary answer back. > > In fact, I would bet this could be done by Bind, because dns is > really fast, and it really does not care what its looking up. Hey, I've been hoping would set something like this up for *years*. ;) Simply hash up the URL -- or just take out the domain part -- and do an RHSBL lookup on it. All it needs is a server, it'd be trivial to look it up from SpamAssassin. - --j. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Exmh CVS iD8DBQFAWqCoQTcbUG5Y7woRAl+wAJ4ob+8uY7pJzXjMwuhiw18FlDYyBQCbBcEs cRNurOtkOKhRInVmlD0oV/w= =nZ9Z -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
