On Oct 4, 2010, at 1:59 PM, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: > On Mon, 04 Oct 2010 13:30:55 PDT, Owen DeLong said: > >> Removing a few points probably isn't a bad idea so long as you have a list of >> domains for which points should be added. > > 140 million .coms. Throw-away domains. I do believe that Marcus Ranum had > "trying to enumerate badness" on his list of "Six stupidest security ideas". > This won't scale as long as you have more spammers adding new domains faster > than your NOC staff can add them to the blacklist. > Yes, getting rid of domain tasting and taking some other steps to bring sanity to the domain name process would really help, IMHO.
> (And even centralized blacklists run by dedicated organizations haven't solved > the problem yet, so I'm not holding my breath waiting for that to work out...) Fair enough. It's not a panacea, but, it can be a component of a solution. Owen
