-----Original Message----- From: Rob McEwen [mailto:rob@powerviewsystems.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2004 7:42 PM To: 'SURBL Discussion list' Subject: [SURBL-Discuss] Most often "hit" SURBL domains

RE: Most often "hit" SURBL domains

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From time to time, ideas float around about how we can take

some pressure off of the SURBL name servers. Recently, most commonly queried URIs that are NOT (and should not) be blocked were mentioned in the hopes that people would "whitelist" these locally so their mail servers would stop querying SURBL for stuff like microsoft.com, ebay.com, etc.

I have a similar idea. Would it be possible to have a running list of the top 20 (or so... 50? 100?) most often queried URI's that are blocked by SURBL (and which should be blocked)? This way, we could take additional pressure off SURBL DNS servers by blacklisting these domains locally BEFORE doing SURBL checking on such messages?

I have a feeling that this has already been requested and implemented??

Could this be done in a host file?

0.0.0.0 aol.com.ws.surbl.org

Would something like that work?

--Chris