On Tuesday, November 7, 2006, 5:23:17 PM, Gerhard (rbl) wrote:
just to demonstrate the power of this service a screenshot we are looking at a private Blackdomai list, surbl, uribl, unwanted email adr's, and a bunch of keyword/Phrases
and a test-url :
http://support.clean-mx.de//clean-mx/trackback.php?url=http%3A%2F%2Fmaps-dri...
result:
<response> <error>1</error> - <message> Blog-entry denied(surbl): Blocked, ewach.info on lists [jp][ob][ph], See: http://www.surbl.org/lists.html" see http://www.clean-mx.de/blogspam Query: 1.2413 Seconds </message>
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It's an interesting and unexpected use of the data, and an interesting solution to the problem of trackback-type spam and abuse. I'd be curious to hear how much of the abuse the various lists catch. In principle our spam-based data probably won't catch all of the abusers. We find that the abuse spaces are usually somewhat different between the different media: mail, blog, etc.
Also the same request goes for your application: please be sure to *not* check the common whitehat domains like google, yahoo, w3c.org, etc., as that could add many unnecessary DNS queries:
http://www.surbl.org/faq.html#local-whitelist
Sample common domains to exclude from checking are linked above.
Cheers,
Jeff C. -- Don't harm innocent bystanders.