Changelog for blq

***** Version 1.23c   February 18, 2006

Added a new tag, psbl to check the Passive Spam Block List (PSBL) at
http://psbl.surriel.com.

***** Version 1.23b   March 20, 2004

Since the xbl list, xbl.selwerd.cx, does not appear to be functioning
any longer I replaced it with the Spam and Open Relay Blocking System
(SORBS) blocklist.  All references to the xbl list were replaced with
sorbs and references to xbl.selwerd.cx were replaced with dnsbl.sorbs.net.

Currently the webpages at http://www.selwerd.cx/xbl/ and
http://www.selwerd.cx show only "under contstruction" messages. Queries
of the list with blq are showing every IP address queried as "blocked".

***** Version 1.23a   January 2, 2004

This version of blq is based on Chip Rosenthal's <chip@unicom.com> 1.23
version of blq (see http://www.unicom.com/sw/blq).  The 1.23 version,
which was the latest version on his site as of January 2, 2004, contains
references to the Osirusoft block lists, which no longer exist.  Osirusoft's
block list server was attacked by spammers and the maintainer of the system
eventually concluded that he could no longer provide block list services,
since his system was being overwhelmed by the magnitude of the attacks
against him, which was unfortunate, since I found that list to be fairly
effective. I've labelled this version as 1.23a, since it is essentially
the same as Chip's 1.23 version, except for the removal of the references
to Osirusoft's block lists and the substitution of a block list I use
in their stead.  With the 1.23 version, you would see delays if you chose
to query all block lists, due to the program attempting to query Osirusoft
and waiting for a response that would never come.

I made the following changes to version 1.23 (November 13, 2002) for Chip
Rosenthal's <chip@unicom.com> blq program (see his website 
http://www.unicom.com/sw/blq).  The line numbers refer to the lines in his
program.

1.  Line 1.  Changed "/usr/local/bin/perl" to "/usr/bin/perl" to reflect
the location of Perl on my Linux system.  You can find the location of
the Perl program on your system by issuing the command "which perl".

2. Added information on the modifications I have made and why I made
them.

3. Added "cbl	cbl.abuseat.org" under "hil	hil.habeas.com".

4.  Added "cbl" to the list of default block lists in the line
"default	sbl, rsl, pdl, opm and relays".

5. Added "cbl	http://dbl.abuseat.org" above "dsbl	http://http://dsbl.org/

6. Removed lines 402 through 409, which referred to Osirusoft block lists.

7. Replaced lines 106 through 105, which referred to Osirusoft block lists
with a reference to the Composite Block List (CBL).

8. Replaced "osirusoft-all" with "cbl" in the following line:

        "all" => [qw(sbl rsl pdl ordb njabl xbl fiveten spamcop hil rfci
                opm-all osirusoft-all dsbl maps)]

9. Replaced "spews.relays.osirusoft.com" with "cbl.abuseat.org" in the
   following line:

                #   206.47.217.48 : spews.relays.osirusoft.com : BLOCKED