It was Friday, February 27, 2004 when administrator(_at_)yellowhead(_dot_)com
took the soap box, saying:
: I am comtemplating writing an SPF Server program to offload some of the
: functionality of SPF from the MTA. It would operate very much in the way
: that a Black List server operates. Queries would be in the form:
:
: 4.214.8.207.v2.listbox.com
When this idea was originally discussed at OSCON, in 2003, it was
considered a potential liability risk. As such, everyone agreed that
if folks wanted something like this they'd build it themselves, but
nobody in the room wanted to take responsibility.
I commend you for your interest, and if you aren't worried about
liability (Is it really an issue? Do RBLs get legal threats for
blocks?), go for it. Just wanted to alert you to the last
group-thought I recall on the matter. :-)
Casey West
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Shooting yourself in the foot with PHP
If you're lucky and the HTTP connection doesn't time out, you shoot
yourself in the foot.