Another Saturday, another spam entry. Today I decided to look at ourlogs to see if some of the DNSBls we check had either gone away orweren't giving us any hits. Since our software checks DNSBls insequence instead of in parallel, removing useless DNSBls both reducesquery volume and speeds things up slightly.

(In general, it's wise to do this periodically unless you're currenton news.admin.net-abuse.email and other information sources, andalready know about any changed

I dislike excessive religion, so I don't hold to the view thateverything should be a method function. Fortunately, Python lets meindulge this view.

My rule of thumb is that any method function that doesn't use its self argument to get at things gets made into a normal module levelfunction. This reduces clutter on the class (and in the source code)and makes what's really going on clear to me and any later readers.

Of course there are some exceptions, such as:

This blog , indeed all of my web pages, have essentially noHTML 'design' as such: no stylish markup, no fancy colour schemes, nofonts, nothing. This is because I'm not a graphics designer and I'mhonest enough to admit it.

Not doing any sort of HTML design leaves things up to the browser. Icertainly hope that browsers have better designers than me working tomake their default behavior good. (And if not, it's not my fault.)Also