On Sat, 11 Sep 2004, Jeff Chan wrote:
On Saturday, September 11, 2004, 10:47:03 AM, Ryan Thompson wrote:
Raymond Dijkxhoorn wrote to Jeff Chan and SURBL Discussion list:
blah.com This was in a ProFTPd mailing list message "how do I set up a virtual host for "blah.com".
Uhm, if people need to type 'some' domain, its often blah.com or foo.com, thats common use, and the spammer using blah.com does take nice advantage of this.
Yeah, and, unfortunately, there isn't much we can do about that to list them, since they'll definitely be used in ham.
I'm making a list of generic placeholder domains that people use in examples, with the idea to whitelist them all to prevent FPs.
Um, people, this precise issue is ancient history. The IETF community ran into this buzz-saw years ago, and there is now a set of reserved domain names -just- for sake of documentation & examples.
See RFC-2606, check out the registration info for "example.com".
So we just need to encourage people to use the reserved names (EG: "example.com") rather than 'foo/bar/blah.com'