Extension I'm working on

[Ugo Bellavance]

Julian Field wrote:
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> I haven't come across DMOZ before. Who are they and what do they do?
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http://www.dmoz.org/

Open directory project...

> 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.
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>> I calculate the md5sum of the URL and then use this as the basis of the
>> lookup
>>
>> i.e. abcdef01234567890abcdef01234567890.zone.file
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>> 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
>>   
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