On Fri, 11 Mar 2005, Jeff Chan wrote:
| On Friday, March 11, 2005, 4:33:45 AM, Chris Edwards wrote: | > Jeff Chan wrote: | | > I wonder if there'd be much mileage in a SpamAssaassin feature to award | > points for any URLs that don't resolve ? | | In principle it's something that could be done, but the timeouts | encountered trying to resolve non-existent domains could make it | impractical.
Ah yes.
Then again, if, in theory, one was to only query the relevant gtld server for the registered toplevel NS records, the answer (positive or negative) should be quick.
| Loading spams full of URIs probably dilutes the spammer's | message, especially if many of them were clickable
OK - interesting - understood.
-- Chris Edwards, Glasgow University Computing Service