On Wednesday, April 21, 2004, 11:25:32 PM, John Wilcock wrote:
On Wed, 21 Apr 2004 14:49:51 -0700, Jeff Chan wrote:
- BigEvil wildcards. Not sure how you would handle these.
Something like
evil\d{2,4}spam.com is a general wildcard. Some of those
domains don't even
exhist. Not sure how SURBL will handle that.
Yes, I should have mentioned that I'm simply discarding them. Unfortunately there's no easy way to deal with them. Domains without any patterns in them, which are a majority, come right through. The script is at:
Can we make sure that when you announce this to the public that they know this! :) I can see the flurry of emails now.
Definitely will mention the differences in the announcement and web site!
Perhaps the ideal would be if the script that converts bigevil to rbl form could also generate a separate "wildevil" cf file containing only the wildcard entries from bigevil, so that people can have the best of both worlds...
That's an interesting idea. I'd need to investigate how reversible the transforms are however. Note that the number of wildcarded base domains discarded is currently 2%.
Jeff C.