Jeff Chan wrote:
On Friday, March 11, 2005, 4:33:45 AM, Chris Edwards wrote:
I wonder if there'd be much mileage in a SpamAssaassin feature to award points for any URLs that don't resolve ?
In principle it's something that could be done, but the timeouts encountered trying to resolve non-existent domains could make it impractical.
Aren't the name resolution attempts done in parallel?
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On Friday, March 11, 2005, 2:30:05 PM, Matthew Eerde wrote:
Jeff Chan wrote:
On Friday, March 11, 2005, 4:33:45 AM, Chris Edwards wrote:
I wonder if there'd be much mileage in a SpamAssaassin feature to award points for any URLs that don't resolve ?
In principle it's something that could be done, but the timeouts encountered trying to resolve non-existent domains could make it impractical.
Aren't the name resolution attempts done in parallel?
Even if they are, there needs to be a reasonable timeout on resolution set, like 10 seconds. That may not seem like a very long delay, but it can keep open server memory allocations, etc.
Jeff C. -- "If it appears in hams, then don't list it."
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