On Wednesday, June 16, 2004, 2:25:23 AM, Frank Ellermann wrote:
Jeff Chan wrote:
I replace sc.surbl.org by multi.surbl.org in my script.
OK, I should have mentioned that's not the preferred way to do things. :-)
For my purposes (I'm only interested in the listing status, it's not used for blocking mail) it is, one GetHostByName is faster than three.
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But for an older spamervized site `rxwhois -a eedqmed.com`
| eedqmed.com (6): .multi.surbl.org | whois -h whois.abuse.net eedqmed.com | postmaster@eedqmed.com (default, no info)
So that result tells me "unknown at abuse.net and RFCI, but listed in sc (2) and ws (4)", because multi said 6.
Aha! I often forget that people have different uses for the data. Since you have your own way to decode the data into the different lists, my comments were misguided. Thanks for telling us a little about how you're using the data!
Jeff C.