I've talked recently to Rick about this privately, but I'll bring it up here while the topic is ripe for discussion:
We've been planning a site for consolidation of blacklists and such for some time, and we now have the bandwidth and server capacity to host such a thing. As soon as I get a free weekend or two, I'm going to write up a set of scripts with a database backend to consolidate 'known good' lists, and prepare 'of unknown quality' lists for inclusion via some sort of editing and weeding process. Quality control really needs to improve with regard to the lists available. Part of the goal is to start running the SquidGuard robot every couple of weeks or so (assuming it can be run in reasonable time and within reasonable bandwidth restrictions--and by reasonable bandwidth restrictions, we can give it 50GB a week of transfer if needed and the quality of the resulting list justifies it). I also really like the dmozlists that Masanori Harada came up with--absolutely brilliant! Since I'm a big fan of Dmoz anyway (and a long time editor of a couple of categories over there) it is nice to see that treasure trove of data being mined for very good purposes. What I'm getting at, is that if someone wants to tackle the task of cataloging and consolidating these lists in the near future, I will happily provide the bandwidth and storage needed to do it. Any sucke^H^H^H^H^Hvolunteers? ;-) Nik Barron wrote: >>I think it would be a good idea to share information, to make our >>blacklists available to others. > > > It would be nice to have some sort of moderated site to maintain this. That > way people could weed out the false positives and also perhaps add some sort > of PICS-style categorisation for adult material. > > Nik -- Joe Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Web caching appliances and support. http://www.swelltech.com
