[SURBL-Discuss] Re: ANTI-SURBL technique used by spammer

Jeff Chan jeffc at surbl.org
Thu May 20 05:06:10 CEST 2004


On Wednesday, May 19, 2004, 5:19:40 PM, Jeff Chan wrote:
> In terms of using freecache to distribute hosting of the SURBL
> web site, we'll look into that.

Looks like we won't be using it for the SURBL site:

  http://www.archive.org/about/faqs.php

> What files are being served by FreeCache?
> 
> FreeCache can only serve files that are on a web site. If the
> link to a file on that web site goes away, so will the file in
> the FreeCaches. Also, there is a minimum size requirement. We
> don't bother with files smaller than 5MB, as the saved
> bandwidth does not outweight the protocol overhead in those
> cases.

Jeff C.



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