Hello,
I would like to develop a SPAM fighting extension of the Thunderbird
email client.
On the contrary of existing plugins, this new plugin would allow each
end-user to report SPAM directly to the right ISP instead of delegating
it to a centralized service. This solution distributes the cost between
all the spam reporters.
For that, I need to know which ISP hosts a given IP.
Of course, I can write a wrapper of the http://www.db.ripe.net/whois
portal. However I'm searching a more efficient way. For example, we
could use a compressed database file on ripe.net (or on bittorrent
network) and local caching on each email client.
I would like to discuss this with the list and provide the most
efficient solution for everyone.
Thanks for your advise.
Regards.
