On Thu, Jul 03, 2008 at 11:09:15AM +0100, Michele Neylon wrote: > > On 2 Jul 2008, at 19:56, Marc Perkel wrote: >>> >> >> Again - it's not to figure out where spam comes from. It's figuring >> out where non-spam comes from. I think there are registrars out there >> that don't have any spam domains registered. >> > > > What are you trying to prove? > > Your logic completely escapes me
So does yours. > I also fail to see how the registrar is of much importance > > There are over 900 ICANN accredited registrars > > Of those about 200 odd are active > > Of the 200 a handful account for the bulk of all domains registered / > managed > > Statistically this means you're going to see spam from domains > registered with enom, godaddy, directi, tucows and a few others. It > doesn't mean anything > > In fact it's totally meaningless If lesser registrar means that it's probably ham, why couldn't someone use that to add some negative scores or use it as a part of whitelist trustworthiness? Even if it's handful of domains, it's useful. If you could get the registrar data without expensive lookups..
