[SURBL-Discuss] browser plugin?

Chris Santerre csanterre at MerchantsOverseas.com
Tue Feb 14 17:55:55 CET 2006



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Raymond Dijkxhoorn [mailto:raymond at 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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