Good evening, Christiaan,
On Mon, 23 Aug 2004, Christiaan den Besten wrote:
Secondly, while doing these tests I noticed that a lot of the sites listed in (our) WS-list are not longer 'alive'. Is there any clean-up procedure
For domains that have completely fallen out of the whois database, we remove those automatically, although this takes a while. The "dead" domains (domains no longer in whois) exist in the "withdead" files under http://www.stearns.org/sa-blacklist/ , but are removed from all files without "withdead" in their names. I can't remove any domains that are still registered (in the whois database) because if I did, a spammer could temporarily shut off the "A" records, wait until they're out the blacklist, and then trivially turn the A records back on.
defined yet ?... or will the list just keep on growing ;)
37,000 domains and growing. :-) Cheers, - Bill
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