On 3/12/2013 6:03 PM, Leo Vegoda wrote:
Hi,
Arnold wrote:
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First I look up the originating IP address in the source code of the SPAM message, plug it into a WhoIs look up via the IANA ipv4-address-space.xml files. Why would you do this instead of using the whois service at whois.iana.org or http://www.iana.org/whois? The whois service will always return the most specific answer in an IANA registry.
Regards,
Leo Because that way it is all contained within my SPAM reporter program.
Assuming that IANA updated their DB files at reasonable intervals - my program checks to see if it has the latest file and if not it downloads the latest one - so it should end up being much easier - no cut-n-paste. Only if I can't find it within the latest IANA data do I consult other sources and in several years worth of using this, most of the time IANA does the job for me. Arnold -- Fight Spam - report it with wxSR 0.5 - ready for Vista & Win7 http://www.columbinehoney.net/wxSR.shtml