[SURBL-Discuss] test.surbl.org

[Chris Santerre]

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Theo Van Dinter [mailto:felicity at kluge.net]
>Sent: Thursday, September 09, 2004 10:59 AM
>To: SURBL Discussion list
>Subject: Re: [SURBL-Discuss] test.surbl.org
>
>
>On Thu, Sep 09, 2004 at 11:08:17AM -0300, Leonardo Helman wrote:
>> Should I send this to spamassasin list?
>
>Questionable.
>
>> That's because it only checks the registered domain and
>> not its subdomains?
>
>Yes.  The SA 3.0 URIDNSBL plugin trims down to the actual domain for
>the query.
>
>That's to avoid something like:
>
>foo.bar.baz.test.something.else.spam.com
>
>where if it wasn't just domain only, there'd be queries for:
>
>foo.bar.baz.test.something.else.spam.com
>bar.baz.test.something.else.spam.com
>baz.test.something.else.spam.com
>test.something.else.spam.com
>something.else.spam.com
>else.spam.com
>spam.com
>
>which is just bad for lots of reasons.
>

But for research giggles, the SURBL lookup page on the SARE website DOES do
this ;) It helps make it somewhat user friendly as well. But like Theo said,
doing this in SA would be bad.

--Chris