Blacklists are not restricted to domains (at least SquidGuard's isn't). Obviously that would be ineffective. SquidGuard's regex matching works great, for one. And their URL blocking is especially effective with blocking sites that continue to register new domains to evade bans (They're not all smart enough to change the directory structure for the phishing/spyware kit they got.) You are right though. We can argue all day about why it is/isn't effective. Tim Christoph Haas <email@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 01/23/2006 03:40 PM To squid-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx cc Subject Re: Can this be done ? On Monday 23 January 2006 19:07, trainier@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: > However, this does not belittle the effectiveness of redirectors. They > work and they're reliable. Redirectors in general work well. But whether blacklists are effective or not is surely hard to decide and more a religion than a science. But considering that in my country alone ~3000 new domains are registered every day and some domains even contain multiple types of content which belongs to different categories I can't imagine how a blacklist claims to be even remotely effective. You should look at the more inventive users in our organisation? Such a black list would be no obstacle. Cheers Christoph -- Never trust a system administrator who wears a tie and suit.
