-----Original Message----- From: Raymond Dijkxhoorn [mailto:raymond@surbl.org] Sent: Tuesday, February 14, 2006 2:48 AM To: SURBL Discussion list Subject: RE: [SURBL-Discuss] browser plugin?
Hi!
How does anyone else feel, particularly operators of our public nameservers?
What would be the goal of a browser plugin?
To warn the browser's user (me, ATM) that the site they are
visiting is
spamvertised and/or a reported phishing site. Useful for
those who do
not have control over their mail server, especially if
they're using
webmail.
Any idea waht this would do to the nameservers we are running, checking each and every URI a user visits? Rather usefull but also rather silly. There are vendors allready doing this, they are free to use the plugin, but please dont use the public infrastructure for this goal. Or are you somehow distributing the data together with the plugin, dont think so?
Thanks, Raymond.
I agree with Raymond. It makes sense to use it in a company that mirrors the SURBL/URIBL data internaly. Then the proxy could cut down on lookups.
I've have actually posted the request to the Firefox people for a plugin, a long time ago. Back when I was with SURBL. They were very interested, but I honestly haven't looked back into it since going to URIBL.
But using the public resources would put a strain on the mirrors. (and most likely get the abusive IPs rejected from connecting any further.)
The idea has merit, but the implimintation is tricky.
--Chris
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Chris Santerre