RE: [Nms-cgi-devel] Anyone...Anyone...?

[Simon W. <es...@ou...>]

On Thu, 2003-02-13 at 15:26, Wizard wrote:
> > I *think* that fr...@ao... should have been blocked by *@*.aol.* but
> > it doesn't seem to match on all fields.
> 
> If '.bl' is a valid tld (like '.co') then I'll add it to the $valid_tlds
> variable and it should parse correctly. I wasn't aware of it. If it
> conflicts with a country code, then I will have a problem.

.co is not a valid tld, either generic or country code. See
http://www.din.de/gremien/nas/nabd/iso3166ma/codlstp1/db_en.html

.bl is not a tld in this example, uk is. It happens that the British
Library for reasons dating back to antiquity, sit outside the generally
accepted standard of .(co|ac|org).uk 

aol.police.uk is really going to mess you up :)

I still believe that you cannot parse the ORGANISATION out of the domain
part of the email address without more semantic information than you
have available.

You cannot expect to have *.aol.* block just websites belonging to
AOL/Time Warner.

You might work on something that allows *.aol.*.uk or *.aol.*.* to match
in the third level domain.

In fact, I'm doing this right now. I just need to test it...

Simon.