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Description Usage Details Note References

Retrieves the Spamhaus Extended DROP List (EDROP)

1	get_edrop()

EDROP is an extension of the DROP list that includes suballocated netblocks controlled by spammers or cyber criminals. EDROP is meant to be used in addition to the direct allocations on the DROP list.

This function is "memoised" because the DROP list changes quite slowly. There is no need to update cached data more than once per hour, in fact once per day is more than enough in most cases. Automated downloads must be at least one hour apart. Excessive downloads may result in your IP being firewalled from the Spamhaus website.

If you are using this from a long-running R session and need to fetch the list, use the clear_drops() function to clear the cache of all "DROP" get functions.

https://www.spamhaus.org/drop/; https://www.spamhaus.org/faq/section/

hrbrmstr/hormel documentation built on May 12, 2019, 5:45 a.m.