On Wed, 2 Aug 2006, jdow wrote: > Of course, then if you have the spammer friendly ISPs and > registrars in the picture it's all null and void.
Don't give up yet! ISPs are assigned specific netblocks. Spammer-friendly ISPs' netblocks can be listed in a DNSBL. It's fairly easy to determine which registrar a domain uses. If a new domain is registered with a spammer-friendly registrar, that domain can be put in a SURBL. If there's notification when a domain changes registrars, the same check can be made to either add or remove the domain. How difficult is it to identify "spammer-friendly" ISPs and registrars? Given a list of such, and notifications of netblock assignment and domain registration and transfer, maintenance of the Spammer-Friendly DNSBL and SURBL could be completely automated. -- John Hardin KA7OHZ ICQ#15735746 http://www.impsec.org/~jhardin/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] FALaholic #11174 pgpk -a [EMAIL PROTECTED] key: 0xB8732E79 - 2D8C 34F4 6411 F507 136C AF76 D822 E6E6 B873 2E79 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- The problem is when people look at Yahoo, slashdot, or groklaw and jump from obvious and correct observations like "Oh my God, this place is teeming with utter morons" to incorrect conclusions like "there's nothing of value here". -- Al Petrofsky, in Y! SCOX -----------------------------------------------------------------------
