> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:discuss- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Robert Menschel > Sent: Friday, 7 May 2004 1:18 PM > To: Jeff Chan > Cc: SURBL Discuss; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [SURBL-Discuss] Re[2]: Bug in Spamcop's surbl add-on module > > Hello Jeff, > > Thursday, May 6, 2004, 3:52:55 AM, you wrote: > > JC> OK I've added a "new"-style regex to remove any subdomains on > JC> generic TLD domains: > JC> http://www.icann.org/tlds/ > JC> > JC> > s/^([^\.]*\.)+([^\.]*)\.(com|net|org|edu|mil|biz|info|int|arpa|name|museum > |coop|aero|pro)$/\2.\3/ > ^^^^ > > The name.tld started life as a 3-level TLD. Many people have individual > abc.def.name domains (eg: my own robert.menschel.name). > > If you strip that third level, that means that if someone registers > spammer.menschel.name (which I have no control over), since I cannot > register menschel.name), and spammer.menschel.name then gets added to > your lists, my robert.menschel.name will be collateral damage.
We've also found professional email marketing companies which are used by both large whitehat companies & some other companies which are far less reputable. These companies regularly use the client.domain.com format for image & href urls, rather than blocking the whole domain we block/whitelist the subdomain. Is there a problem in leaving this kind of flexibility in the plugin and also the surbl.org SURBL's? Cheers! Dave ======================================================================== Pain free spam & virus protection by: www.mailsecurity.net.au Forward undetected SPAM to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ========================================================================
