Extension I'm working on

[Julian Field]

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I haven't come across DMOZ before. Who are they and what do they do?

Matt Hampton wrote:
> Ken A wrote:
>   
>> Sounds interesting. How do you generate the DNS zone? 
>>     
>
> I take a dump from DMOZ of their complete directory (2Gb of uncompressed
> data) and parse it.
>
> I calculate the md5sum of the URL and then use this as the basis of the
> lookup
>
> i.e. abcdef01234567890abcdef01234567890.zone.file
>
> Will return the TXT record of the appropriate classification.  This
> method means that the complete URL can be tested anonymously.
>
>   
>> Why not make it an SA plugin, similar to the 'urirhssub' tests, so it could take advantage
>> of scoring system and wider testing?
>>     
>
> Because it may not be Spam as such. It might be someone mailing a friend
> - "did you see this film last night: http://link".
>
> In this case it won't be spam and is more a content thing and so more
> relevant to MailScanner than SA. Well that was my thinking!
>
> It would also make more sense to "block" (gives the option of sending a
> "this email was inappropriate" to the recipient rather than just
> dropping it because it was classified as spam.
>
> Thanks for the comments.
>
>
> Matt
>   

Jules

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