On Wednesday, May 12, 2004, 4:21:04 PM, Raymond Dijkxhoorn wrote:
Is it necessarily a good idea to combine lists like ws and be into a single entity when the sources of information are different ? (One comes from Bill, one comes from Chris) What policies of inclusion and removal do they each have ?
Say that a legitimate domain were somehow blocked, how would an end user know if it was Bill's data or Chris's that actually had it listed, to try and get it removed ? Etc...
You get a different answer from DNS... pretty clear :)
So from a technical point of view, fine no problem, but I wonder a bit about compatibility of listing policies etc..
Its only as a combined list to avoid double lookups for people who check with all 3 available lists, as most do currently. Saves 2/3 of the load on the nameservers :)
Actually I was getting tricky and proposing to collapse ws and be into a single response within a combined list. This was mainly to prevent needing to remove separate be entries later since it will probably be merged into ws eventually. I was proposing short circuiting that process in the combined list.
Jeff C.