On Wednesday, October 20, 2004, 12:46:53 PM, Rob McEwen wrote:
BTW... since it seems like many of these are hosting companies who do not "police" their customers for spam as well as they ought to... this brings up a question...
I know that SURBL is intended for domains and IP addresses. Therefore, NOT listing a domain probably allows some of that domain's subdomains and subwebs to go crazy with their spam sending.
I somewhat disagree with that premise. There's a disincentive for shared hosting companies to allow their services to be abused since it adds to their traffic and support costs and gains them little. Abuses at legitimate providers tends to be a money loser. On the other hand if they ignore abuse complaints they can save on immediate support costs.
But hard core spammers would do a lot of damage to a shared legitimate host, in terms of traffic, support, and damaged reputation which is why pill/mortgage/warez spammers usually seem to be on their own domains and often on their own servers. And they host at spam friendly or tolerant ISPs in places like China, Korea and Brazil.
subwebs = thatdomain.com/subweb
I would call those paths. Anything on the right hand side of the domain is a path, directory or folder depending on the local vocabulary.
Jeff C. -- "If it appears in hams, then don't list it."