Hi!
I dont see the problem listsing them inside a SURBL. The extra few kb it will take on the nameservers ? For me i would like to put the preassure on DNS, not on every single box that has to do expression lookups, those will cost a lot more CPU... Most of the times its not the nameservers that cant keep up, but the mailboxes...
ws.surbl.org will continue to get all the domains that are practical to enumerate from sa-blacklist, BigEvil.cf, MidEvil.cf, etc. We don't be getting heavily wildcarded ones or ones with regular expression ranges, etc, into SURBLs since BIND and rbldnsd would not know how to handle them.
Something like *spammer.biz would be impossible to enumerate, for example, whereas spammer[0-2].biz can be successfully enumerated and would be included in ws.surbl.org as spammer0.biz, spammer1.biz, spammer2.biz .
Wonder if i would like to run that anyway, *spammer.biz, then i would also block antispammer.biz. =)
We're still waiting to hear back from people about the performance, especially a false positive rate from ob.surbl.org before announcing or distributing them. And multi.surbl.org presumably doesn't have code that can use it yet. Those are the only new lists needing some feedback/coding.
If i have some more time the next days i can have a look also.
Bye, Raymond.