On Sunday, August 22, 2004, 3:16:42 PM, Christiaan Besten wrote:
a small test with a simple 'diff' script showed me that comparing output from url's found in 'fresh' spam with known spam-sites is doable. These guys seem to be changing domains every 8 hours or so...
Would it be bad to have some of these (stupid) 'static webpage hosting' spammers automaticly being added to the WS list by comparing the output of their home page advertised in the url?
It's fairly easy to create a script to do this ... that's not the issue.... what could go wrong ?.. any input would be appreciated :)
(Welcome to the list Chris! Same to other new folks!)
Could be interesting, but how do you discover the new domain names?
Secondly, while doing these tests I noticed that a lot of the sites listed in (our) WS-list are not longer 'alive'. Is there any clean-up procedure defined yet ?... or will the list just keep on growing ;)
Yes there is a clean up that Bill Stearns has done to get rid of older domains. Presumably we'll do that occasionally to prune the list of old, non-functional domains.
Jeff C.