HariSeldon
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I've recently taken an interest in drop-catching again and am finding that trawling through droplists can be so tedious at times.
Obviously it's a necessary evil for dropcatchers and maybe it's just me but I sometimes start to lose the will to live as I scroll through page after page of utter dross. Of course one man's trash is another man's treasure but for my dropcatching purposes I'd say literally 99.9% of drops don't have any interest to me. With typically 5,000 drops a day that's an awful lot of junk to rummage through.
Don't get me wrong, there are occasionally some laugh out loud moments (usually adult-humour domains
) to break the monotony but by far the vast majority are just meh. Is it just me or do others feel the same? If the latter does anyone feel like sharing any steps they've taken to deal with it?
To start the ball rolling, my script now separates the 5,000 or so daily drops into much smaller filtered lists, so LLL, LLLL, LLLLL, specific keywords, plurals, .me.uk, numeric and stupidly long domains etc. This means I can scan just the domain types I'm most interested in without my eyes glazing over too much and occasionally look through the more esoteric lists if I can summon up the will power to do so. I still find it tedious but just about bearable...
Obviously it's a necessary evil for dropcatchers and maybe it's just me but I sometimes start to lose the will to live as I scroll through page after page of utter dross. Of course one man's trash is another man's treasure but for my dropcatching purposes I'd say literally 99.9% of drops don't have any interest to me. With typically 5,000 drops a day that's an awful lot of junk to rummage through.
Don't get me wrong, there are occasionally some laugh out loud moments (usually adult-humour domains
) to break the monotony but by far the vast majority are just meh. Is it just me or do others feel the same? If the latter does anyone feel like sharing any steps they've taken to deal with it?To start the ball rolling, my script now separates the 5,000 or so daily drops into much smaller filtered lists, so LLL, LLLL, LLLLL, specific keywords, plurals, .me.uk, numeric and stupidly long domains etc. This means I can scan just the domain types I'm most interested in without my eyes glazing over too much and occasionally look through the more esoteric lists if I can summon up the will power to do so. I still find it tedious but just about bearable...
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